Military technology helps deter attacks and bring warfighters home

Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

1. 5:48

   thing Palantir is doing that other people in this room are doing and people like you and other people adjacent or ancillary to building more lethal and deadly weapons is to make sure that American warfighters are much more likely to come home. And quite frankly, the people who are trying to harm them know that they won't be coming home. And that's the way you stop people from attacking us, in my opinion. And then on the kind of the leading up to what's going on, but I think that there are probably people in this room who are wildly supportive and there are people who aren't. It is hard to deny that America is exerting a deterrent capability that was eviscerated.

2. 6:37

   You can like or not like. That's different than ignoring we now have a deterrent capability that no other country appears to have. And that is for lots of reasons. And obviously, the warfighter, people organized the warfighter, the generals, the leadership, the president. But one advantage that often gets overlooked for reasons that make no sense is warfighting is technology. I spent half my life in Germany for familial reasons, and then I wrote my PhD there.

3. 7:12

   And then the rise of America after World War II, the reason America was able to win World War II, were technological advantages. And if you look what happened in Operation Midnight Hammer, what happened in Venezuela, what's so far happening in Iran, you see one society just totally dominating. That's our society. Now, you could get into, I mean, always in fights with my intellectual friends about it. They're like, but wouldn't it be better to have a law-based system where everyone is equal? Yeah, sure, in theory. But in this world, it's us or China or Russia.

4. 7:48

   Yeah. And I don't know how you guys feel about those decisions, but I literally believe we're doing the work of a higher purpose by making sure, and not just for America, but for the whole world. that we are the power that actually has the decisive vote. And there is only one way to do that, and that is with military superiority. And when I say military superiority, I don't mean that we're arguing on a PowerPoint.

5. 8:16

   It means, so now you get to what has technology done? Now, again, I think whenever people like me are talking about this, you can't say enough that it's the warfighter and their courage, and I'm not doing that. I'm sitting here. And we have Palantirians all over, like I'm talking to them constantly. So they're putting themselves in harm's way. And I am kind of, but not directly. It's mostly all the people who yell at me. And I guess maybe there are some people want to shoot at me. But in the lifetime of Palantir, there's been the rise of software, which essentially meant your software company that is supplying a steak dinner is obviously parasitic, is not cutting it. Those companies are being eviscerated.

6. 8:55

   the rise of defense tech. And now you have a hybrid software, hardware, AI, where you really need all three. Interestingly, from an investment perspective, I would say the last company standing before we all have to salute the overload of the LLM will be Palantir. But it's mainly... We're going to get into that, I promise. It's mainly because it's the specificity and the security and the orchestration. But none of that has to make any sense to anyone in this room. I'll tell you what, it makes a lot of sense to our adversaries right now. How is America doing this? Now, again, it's specialized ways. It's 25, 30 years of experience in fighting. It's meritocracy. The Department of War is the most meritocratic environment. It integrated in Korea before our society did. It is the most popular institution and most revered institution and probably the only institution in America that

7. 9:52

   is actually revered by the American people across every demographic. And it's revered by the American people across every demographic precisely because it's been meritocratic. If you were a black American, you got your break in America by going to the military. If you wanted to be treated fairly and you were from a group that you felt that every demographic has somebody who is in the military, whose life was changed and it did something noble and wonderful for America, They also have the experience of coming home in America, not sticking up for them.

8. 10:25

   We should change that. Now you get to Silicon Valley.