Luke Chen | Abundant Defense
Luke ChenAbundance Thinking for American Defense
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Ukraine’s Grim Abundance Agenda
Ukraine has an ePoints system that lets units earn points for killing Russian troops or destroying Russian equipment, then spend those points on drones and other systems. As covered in a Times article, this has been called “grim” – which it...
Why You Should Read Abundant Defense
Aircraft in storage at Davis–Monthan AFB
The United States can build the most sophisticated weapons on earth and still struggle to build enough of them. That gap shapes almost every defense debate. Abundant Defense is about why it exists a...
The U.S. military inadvertently built walkable mixed-use urbanism in Iraq. At home, you need a car.
TLDR: It’s very difficult to get around bases without a car, so we need to increase in-base transit like buses and scooters.
When I was in Hawaii in the summer of 2023 as an Air Force reservist, one morning my boss saw me locking my used b...
AI is Going to Change Everything (Even if You Lose Money)
In an earlier post, I argued that venture investors are already doing history when they evaluate companies, and that the quality of their historical reasoning affects whether they make or lose money.
The same problem shows up in another f...
How to Win a Defense Tech Hackathon
I spent this past weekend helping organize and mentor at Critical Ops, the DC defense tech hackathon hosted by students from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and George Washington University. Over three days, hackers worked on problem sets pulled...
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USAF Active -> Reserves, working in defense tech. Insights at the crossroads of technology, business, and strategic studies. All views my own. Wharton/SAIS graduate.
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