Tag: Military
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
Pat Tillman walked away from a $3.6 million NFL contract to join the Army after 9/11. What makes a man do something like that? As I headed off on vacation a couple of weeks ago, I cracked the book Where Men Win Glory to find out. Tillman was one of…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
Chinese robotics startup Unitree has been caught embedding a backdoor in their robots that lets them spy on people. This shows why we must ban all Chinese robots. Whether it’s a robot dog, android, autonomous EV or drone, all these products are the same. They have chips, cameras, a battery…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, China, Defense, Drones, Military, News, Robotics, Robots, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, War+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
“For two decades, no Secretary of Defense even bothered to set foot in Silicon Valley…” In 2015, Ash Carter finally changed that. This was the beginning of a wave that launched a thousand defense startups. In 2016, Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchoff took control of Defense Innovation Unit X (DIUx).…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Defense, Department of Defense, DoD, Founders, Military, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, War+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
Since 1945, our nuclear weapons have made us invulnerable. Those days are over. Chinese companies are well ahead of us in robotics. Soon, they will turn these technologies to military uses. Unitree recently demoed an android that can run fast on hills, gravel, or stairs. It will cost just $16,000.…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ AI, Army, Artificial Intelligence, China, Defense, Defense Tech, Drones, Military, Robotics, Robots, Startups, Tech, Technology+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
Marine special forces are testing robot dogs armed with rifles. A human still makes the decision to fire — for now. The robot that Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is using comes from a company called Ghost Robotics, according to The War Zone. The robots are armed with rifles…
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
“What if you could make a drone botnet? You just give it a task and it operates autonomously and does it.” “That would be so cool!” Last month, I was having lunch with an awesome founder I invested in. His company had recently been acquired, and we were kicking around…
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
“While most people stop when they’re tired, I stop when I am done.” David Goggins David Goggins just might be the baddest man alive. He holds the world pull-up record (4,030 in 17 hours), has 70 ultramarathons under his belt…oh, and he’s also a Navy SEAL. Get the blog before…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Advice, David Goggins, Inspiration, Military, Motivation, Navy, Navy SEALs, Reading, SEALs, Self-help+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
A man walks in a remote field. From a place he cannot even see, a quiet drone takes off. It’s headed his way. This drone was made by Anduril Industries and this time, it just watched. But it can do a lot more. These powerful craft can fly at 80…
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
At its widest point, Russia spans nearly 5,000 miles from the Vistula Spit in the west to the Kuril Islands in the east. In 1994, its military numbered 1.4 million. It had a massive air force and heavily armed infantry, along with the latest technologies like guided missiles. Chechnya is…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Podcasts+ Army, Chechnya, Combat, History, Insurgency, Leadership, Military, Military history, Russia, USSR, War, Warfare+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
“I owe everything to America.” That’s Thomas ‘Drago’ Dzieran, who left Communist Poland in the 1980’s for freedom in America and became a Navy SEAL. His path to the teams is singular. Drago began to oppose Communism at an early age. He refused to learn Russian in school and was…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Communism, Drago, Freedom, Jocko, Jocko Podcast, Jocko Willink, Leadership, Military, Navy, Navy SEALs, Podcast, Poland, SEAL, SEALs, Service+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Tremendous 