Luke Chen | Abundant Defense
Luke Chen, Alex DolanAbundance Thinking for American Defense
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America’s newest weapons are designed to be obsolete for decades
Imagine that a software company announced a new product today and proudly promised that it would remain at the center of its customers’ operations through 2080. No customer would find this reassuring.
Software written just twenty years ago...
Bad HR Software Is Making the Army Less Lethal
When Alex and I first talked about writing together, I asked him for a concrete example of an Army process that failed. He described a personnel shuffle in which bad personnel management software and processes left a unit unsure where one o...
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...
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Abundance thinking for American defense. USAF Active -> Reserves, working in defense tech. Wharton/SAIS grad. All views my own.
First principles perspectives on defense industrial base innovation
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