So help me understand why Littleton. If we are involved in something in the Indoacific that is is becoming a challenge between the United States and China, the more that that China could get us to focus at home means now our resources are focused in the homeland. That would distract us, distract resources, make it more difficult for us to mobilize in a crisis.Littleton may not be a very large place, but if the Chinese took its water offline, the entire country would be focused on it. And if there were three ...

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Now joining us to talk about AI in the military and defense is uh Michelle Ga, CEO of the Croc uh Institute uh for tech diplomacy at Purdue University. She's a former assistant secretary of state for global public affairs in the first Trump administration. And um I wish I hadn't had to to uh to read all your notes on this because it's just very concerning uh Michelle at this point.I I mean it could be I guess it's like anything. It's a tool that could be used for immense good, but it it could also in in the ...