Erik Prince

The decision-making of a...

Chinese Communist Party, one state rule where no one questions, no one questions the boss, no one calls bullshit on bad decisions, where every decision is not made by the people here, where it should be.

It's always kicked upstairs, waiting for someone senior to them to make that decision, really paralyzes their decision-making.

And you even see that.

I remember

Probably eight years ago, there was a knife attack from some Uyghurs, okay, which is a ethnic Turkic Muslim part of China from Xinjiang province.

And they did a knife attack in a major Chinese city.

And it was so bad, so bureaucratic, the controls that

The police that responded, one guy could carry the pistol, another guy had to carry the magazine, and they had to call back to headquarters to have permission to hand the magazine to the guy to load the pistol.

This is during a full-on knife attack to solve that problem.

Amplify that a thousandfold across the Chinese military.

Now, autonomy, maybe that accrues back to their benefit because they're not so worried about friendly casualties and friendly fire and collateral.

But we have an innovative populace that will come up with new solutions.

Look at Elon Musk, what he's done to space lift and space travel versus the all-government, all-the-time solution.

You need to find 100 more Elon Musks amongst all these defense innovative companies, give them money, give them leeway, and great things will happen.

If we depend on the cartel,

that is the big five defense industry, we're screwed.

And it also takes good leadership.

If you think about the officers, the senior officers, the naval officers that defeated the Japanese Army and Navy in the Pacific Theater, you had guys like Admiral Burke.

They called him 31 Not Burke.