Mike Partyka (@MichaelJPartyka)

"The Pentagon is doing something that I never thought I'd see, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth unfortunately gets zero credit because he's so disliked in the mainstream press, but he has allowed his deputy Steven Feinberg and a group around him to go to private enterprise and say, 'The heck with the old models! Within two years we want to have 350,000 AI drones at a cost of less than $5,000 apiece.' They're going to all the startups and saying, 'Bring us what you have, and we will have a huge competition,' which they're now running. And it's succeeding because they have unleashed the dynamism and the initiative in our commercial sector and applied it to the defense sector. They are making headway, and if we end up within a few years of having hundreds of thousands of drones on unmanned vessels, then we don't have to put our carriers in harm's way. The carriers can be hanging back, and we could say to China, 'Don't even think of taking Taiwan because we're going to meet you with all of these autonomous warfare vehicles and drones, and there's nothing you can do about it. We'll fire a thousand drones at each of your ships without risking one American life.' If the Pentagon continues the way it's going, even on a shoestring budget, it will make drastic changes." --Bing West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8D724k1l8 #Pentagon #Defense #China #Taiwan #Military #Drones #AI #Technology