Sen. Ted Cruz

And he's an amazing tech entrepreneur.

In fact, I said at the lunch that I think Palmer and Elon Musk are the two most important tech entrepreneurs in the country, and he's an innovative thinker.

And he's talking about everything he's doing at Andrew, which is amazing.

And like Elon, both of them, they don't just think outside the box.

They don't know there's a box.

I love, both are really good friends and I love watching how their minds work.

I asked him, I said, look, you're really good at thinking outside the box.

What is the future of military conflict?

What is the future of military conflict in 10 years?

And what should we be afraid of?

If you were an enemy, how would you attack the United States?

And he raised in particular for a non-nation state.

I mean, he talked about all sorts of things where the future of war is going.

Obviously, things like drones and AI, although he actually said that would be slower than many people think.

We'd still be using B2s and F-35s and a lot of the legacy equipment for 10, 20, 30 years.

He talked about subterranean warfare that he thought would be a component going forward.

But in terms of a vulnerability, something very few people are talking about that Palmer mentioned, he said he worries about our vulnerability to a bioweapon attack, that we don't have nearly sufficient defenses to fight against and the ability to spread.

And, you know, he pointed out, look, COVID,

which at the end of the day, in terms of mortality, there are many bioweapons whose mortality is orders of magnitude worse than COVID.

COVID shut the world's economy down for a year and inflicted trillions of dollars of economic harm.