less time–more chaos
Palantir’s Shyam Sankar continues to offer some of the clearest and most precise ideas on how we need to shift our mindset if we want to set the foundation for the next big war.
I’m not going to ask too much of your time today. Nope, just a bit over a minute to ponder Shyam’s four Sputnik moments.
The 1 minute and 19 seconds is an incredibly powerful boil-down of what should drive a lot of our thinking. Really, we should already be well down the road in acting on it.
History’s worst tyrants didn’t just rule; they engineered nightmares.
From Qin Shi Huang’s iron-fisted unification and Julius Caesar’s precedent-setting power grab to Attila’s scorched-earth raids and Genghis Khan’s empire built on terror, these figures bent whole civilizations to their will. They stacked skulls into monuments, turned cruelty into policy, and burned heretics to make a point.
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The 20th century only served to industrialize the horror.
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Elbit Systems of America (Elbit America) has secured a contract to deliver Head-Up Displays (HUDs) for the Army’s Air Soldier System.
At least 200 U.S. service members have been wounded while taking part in Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command announced on Monday.
A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command confirmed Monday that at least 200 U.S. troops had been wounded in the nearly three weeks of fighting. Injuries were reported among troops based in the Middle East. According to Central Command officials, the overwhelming majority of wounded have returned to duty, roughly 180.
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Actor Blair Underwood was in first grade the first time that he remembers his mother saying she wanted to write a book.
It could have been a fleeting memory, a random thought spoken by a military spouse juggling so many tasks. Underwood (“L.A. Law,” “Rules of Engagement”) never forgot it, though, mainly because Marilyn Ann Scales Underwood kept repeating it over the years.
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Marilyn’s husband, Frank Sr., spent 28 years in the United States Army and retired as a colonel.
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