I don’t know about you, but in the arch from Ukraine to Israel, the Red Sea, and Venezuela to the First Island Chain (OK, that is less of an arc than a Nike Swoosh), it is getting hard to keep up on the natsec front.
It is fun, and exciting, to keep track of the flashing objects—it is real, you can see it, and it is what we are most comfortable with.
If you are looking at the long-term, there are the things in the background, the machine inside the skin, that really matter. It has been a busy year, and the new Pentagon team—younger and more vigorous than its predecessor—is moving fast across a whole host of fronts when it comes not just to people, but process, organization, and culture.
It is a challenge to find in open source where some of those currents are, but last week we got a bit of a glimpse of it in the remarks by Secretary or War Pete Hegseth at SpaceX in Starbase, Texas.
The venue is important in understanding the context here: tech, innovation, etc…but in the speech there are some points that I think are helpful if you are trying to get a feeling for some of the ideas bubbling around behind the walls of the Pentagon.
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