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Alexander Harstrick

Alexander Harstrick

Jun 26, 2026

2:18
There's a whole bunch of acronyms here that I would love your help to demystify, and DIU is one of them.
2:24
If you are sleeping at a base in Afghanistan, the likelihood that someone is going to have a human assault on you is very, very low.
2:34
And so we largely chose when we wanted to go to war.
2:39
That's not the case when you're fighting a excuse me, when we wanted to go to battle.
2:43
Rather, that's not the case when you're fighting a near peer.
2:46
Right.
2:46
A near peer would be Russia, China.

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12:02
And that's how they're kind of accidentally turning into a dual-user defense tech company because of the funding, right?
25:56
How do you think about these things? The, the idea of, of drones being able to infiltrate through systems, of them being much cheaper than traditional missiles, and how we prepare ourselves for that.
26:08
It, it's really, really hard.
26:09
From a geopolitical standpoint, we just need to accept the fact that artificial intelligence in warfare is an inevitability.
26:18
Uh, we've seen these types of shifts all throughout human history.
26:21
Somebody was using bronze, someone else used steel.
26:24
Somebody was using swords, someone else was using a, a gun.
26:27
Someone else was using a gun, someone else was using a missile.
29:11
Mm.

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