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Jim talks with Samo Burja about his report on the defense startup Anduril's plan to modernize the U.S. military. They discuss "live players vs. dead players," AI adoption & cognitive tools, Anduril's background & naming origin, military technology modernization, software-defined conflicts, autonomous & software-enabled weapons, sensor deployment & data collection, the Lattice software platform, hardware offerings including drone & underwater vehicle acquisitions, surface naval warfare obsolescence, military industrial capacity, US vs. China manufacturing capabilities, personnel-to-weapon system ratios, drone production scale, cost considerations, defense industry ecosystem, traditional contractors, friend-shoring possibilities, NATO+ industrial capacity, component manufacturing, future warfare implications, training advantages of digital systems, scale of drone warfare, AI capabilities gaps between nations, industrial advantages in military competition, and much more.
Episode Transcript
EP 244 Samo Burja on Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Bismarck Brief
"Anduril's Plan to Modernize the U.S. Military," by Samo Burja
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
EP 247 Sergey Kuprienko on Drone Warfare in Ukraine
Bismarck Analysis
Foresight Institute
Anduril Industries
"Anduril Industries Acquires UAS Developer Blue Force Technologies" - Press Release
Samo Burja is the president and founder of Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm specializing in institutional analysis for clients in North America and Europe. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute and chair of the editorial board of Palladium Magazine. You can follow him at @SamoBurja.
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