Power: U.S. military-industrial readiness is actually a 3 out of 10
Chris Power · a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022 · Dec 27, 2022 · at 38:32
Chris Power, founder and CEO of advanced manufacturing company Hadrian, defines a lethality mirage in defense and assesses actual U.S. defense capability.
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“It's a lethality mirage and a lethality mirage is basically, you know, everyone else's impression of you is that you are a 10 out of 10 lethal. So they absolutely not going to fuck with you. And then maybe you lose one small conflict and someone goes, well, hold on. Like maybe these guys aren't so scary as we thought they were. And in reality, I think we're about a three out of 10.”
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