Darren Farber

“We're going to have to take a concerted effort here for these legs of future power and we're going to have to continually reinvest in them... Congress needs to create multi-year authorities across the stack. These continuing resolutions kill industry.”

“Abbas Malani has documented this in voluminous detail. He's a wonderful scholar on the topic... Malani calls it a mafia style regime.”

“Kevin Rudd used to be the Australian prime minister, is fluent in Mandarin, by the way, has a PhD in Mandarin, is really a Xi watcher. He said that Xi's a risk taker.”

“I love Kotkin because he's so clear — if you don't know history, everything is unprecedented.”

“There's this hybridization that happened in certain parts of the Shia Muslim world through the works of Shariati, which is a hybridization of Marxism and martyrdom together... it promotes internal destruction and sacrifice to the limit as evidence that you're winning.”

“Anduril is, of course, the most famous. But tons of companies doing something. Drone-specific companies. Submarine boats. Missiles.”