Grading Operation Epic Fury, with Christian Brose

Christian Brose, president and chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare (bookshop.org/a/93116/9780316533676), joins the show to help us evaluate American performance against Iran so far and discuss the state of defense innovation in America. What is on the cutting edge? Where are we falling behind? And what happens if the war comes home?

Times:

01:58 - Audit of Operation Epic Fury

05:04 - Munitions and weapons shortages

08:30 - New lower-cost weapons

10:56 - The Barracuda cruise missile system

15:04 - Lessons from the battlefield

15:41 - Missile defense systems

21:47 - Software, data, and AI

24:39 - Homeland defense

27:02 - Containerization

28:05 - Industrial capacity

31:36 - Bringing Americans back into defense manufacturing

34:43 - The defense budget

39:02 - Anduril fundraising

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