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Katılım Temmuz 2023
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Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey·
"The Pentagon announced they're doing an LCCM buy from Anduril; our Barracuda-500 class. We will produce 7,000 barracudas in 2027. Deliveries on Tomahawks and Patriots are both less than 1,000 a year, so we will make ten times more Barracuda-500s than Patriots or Tomahawks."
Arena Magazine@arenamagdotcom

In the first weeks of the war with Iran, the US burned through years of Tomahawk production and other crucial stockpiles. @anduriltech chairman @traestephens talks to @carsonjbecker for @arenamagdotcom on the lessons of modern war, the China challenge, and rebuilding America's arsenal.

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Anduril Observer
Anduril Observer@AndurilObserver·
One thing that stood out to me is how consistently Trae returns to production. Not just better weapons. Better manufacturing. It reinforces something I’ve been thinking about recently: production isn’t simply downstream from innovation anymore—it has become part of the competitive advantage itself.
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Arena Magazine
Arena Magazine@arenamagdotcom·
"Ships may win battles, but shipyards win wars." In the latest from Arena 008: At Sea, @MiquelVilam on Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's idea of sea power and why America must embrace its maritime identity to counter China. In Arena 008: At Sea. Read it at @arenamagdotcom
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Carson
Carson@carsonjbecker·
@mill_josep28363 He was the leader of Bulgaria, a minor Axis power. But yes he was only 6 when he became king. He was most certainly not calling the shots.
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Joseph Mill
Joseph Mill@mill_josep28363·
@carsonjbecker Want Simeon just a child at the time, with no power, with a Regency set up instead? I wouldn't call him an Axis leader
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Carson
Carson@carsonjbecker·
I reviewed @brendanpsimms new history of the Great Powers, among the most valuable contributions to the genre in recent memory. My review for the @dcexaminer:
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Carson
Carson@carsonjbecker·
Legacy systems are failing, argues Patri Friedman. Neither the welfare state, democracy, nor traditional currency are sustainable forever. The answer is competitive governance: entrepreneurial legal and regulatory systems, like charter cities, built in parallel to existing national ones. Read @patrissimo's views on Seasteading, special jurisdictions, and the weaknesses of legacy institutions from issue 008 of @arenamagdotcom:
Arena Magazine@arenamagdotcom

"Sovereignty is a direction. It's not a destination." For Arena 008: At Sea, @carsonjbecker sits down with @patrissimo, founder of the @Seasteading Institute and the world's first charter-city venture fund @PronomosVC to talk tax havens, competitive governance, and the limits of the nation state. Read it at @arenamagdotcom

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Arena Magazine
Arena Magazine@arenamagdotcom·
The deep sea floor is host to tens of trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals that power electric vehicles, electronic devices, and the grid itself. New for Arena 008: At Sea, @bbalkus on the race between US and China to mine them.
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Carson
Carson@carsonjbecker·
For @arenamagdotcom I interviewed Norman Augustine, one of the most prominent figures in U.S. aerospace history. Now 90 years old, he had a major hand in the Patriot missile, the Abrams tank, and the merger which created the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Arena Magazine@arenamagdotcom

"The Last Supper" was the 1993 dinner at the Pentagon where the DoD told defense CEOs the industry was consolidating and they had to figure out who would survive. The term was named by Norman Augustine on his way out the door. He was the man who later merged (and led) Lockheed Martin. Read @carsonjbecker's interview with him in the latest installment of Principals (link below):

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