Jake Chapman ๐บ๐ธ๐ โจ๐บ๐ธ
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Working at the nexus of national security & VC. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars โจ Partner @marque_vc & Adjunct @randcorporation
1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep. "Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries" An early sketch:
Now that Andor has given us a glimpse inside the Empireโs bureaucracy and military industrial complex, I want a โPentagon Warsโ style movie about the development of the AT-ST and the corners that were cut which resulted in it becoming easy prey for a bunch of Ewoks! #StarWars
โThereโs an asymmetry that no one explains. Thereโs are a million people in labor camps in China; Rwanda and the Congoโthat was one of the bloodiest wars in the world; Turkey is illegally occupying Cyprus still illegitimately, illegally, much more dramatically even than Gaza; theโฆ
We have a growing anti-Semitism problem in America. My closing monologue today addressing the Myron Gaines podcast discussion of the Holocaust.
Ever since I was a little boy Iโve dreamed of being an ICBM. Soon Iโll be able to close my eyes and imagine that I am 1 megaton of democracy headed anywhere in the world in under one hour.
ELON WANTS TO REPLACE PLANES WITH ROCKETS SpaceXโs Starship could take you from New York to Sydney in under an hour. It skips jetlag by literally launching you into space and back down somewhere else. Itโs like teleportation but with fire and Elon energy. Would you ditchโฆ
After spending a lot of time on X the last couple years, I have officially concluded that โ If Israel did not exist, there would 10000% be another holocaust.
The peace I want is not a temporary pause between wars. The peace I want is forgiveness, reconciliation, truth, justice, and friendship.
๐จPR DECEPTION ALERT | @sapirlipkin , Israelโs Channel 12 News reports: โAn organized operation led by Hamasโs โArrowโ unitโ: โPublished on @N12News: Hamas is inciting deliberate chaos in Gaza: a day of rage in markets, orchestrated rushes to aid distribution centers. Hamas isโฆ
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I asked this question. Sounds almost like a throw away. BUT Actually each of us has to answer this question every day. There are 3 main system types competing for dominance and we donโt get to sit on the sidelines. How do you want to live? How do you want your kids to live?
This is ๐ฏ
Less than 1% of the population is Active Duty Military, less than 6% of the US population has ever served in our military, and only a percentage of those that have served have ever seen war. That means that roughly over 95% of the American population has no idea what warโฆ
Itโs really tough when corporate or Federal standards force you to store all your critical/classified data in Chinaโฆ โฆsorry, I mean in Sharepoint, same differenceโฆ
Contrary to being โIslamophobicโ everyone SHOULD be not just phobic but terrified of intolerant terrorists who tell you in the name of Islam they will actually kill you if you are not of them โand they will.
This should be mandatory viewing for all Ivy League students Evil exists in the world, even if you have t had to stare it in the eyes
If, 30 years from now, the entire world were governed under only 3 systems, which one would you prefer to live under.
Iโm stunned by the amount of people who donโt understand that decisive violence is sometimes the highest form of mercy in war. I think Iโve found the real national security threat. It certainly isnโt climate change. Itโs will.