How Defense Tech Is Rewriting Global Power Dynamics - Good Times Bad Times (The 20s Report)

From tanks breaking through the front lines at Camber in 1917 through the Internet born of the cold war technological race to today's battlefields where drones and artificial intelligence draw a new map of warfare, human history is a history of military
innovations. Imagine Silicon Valley of the 1950s not as the cradle of social media, but as a forge for spy plane software and cruise missile chips. Think of Ukraine where mass production of 4 million drones annually creates a new reality in which individual battles can be decided with a single click.

Behind the facade of conflicts a struggle is unfolding today between defense industry giants and new players Palantir whose value increased by 300% in 2024 exceeds the combined capitalization of the rest of the American defense sector valued at $28 billion, Andurel defeats offers from Lockheed or Boeing in Pentagon tenders, while European housing worth 5 billion euros creates precision mass of combat drones. Is it these startup outsiders who are shaping the future of war? We stand on the threshold of a revolution: artificial intelligence enters the battlefield, unmanned vehicles replace soldiers, and technologies defined as dual use blur the line between peace and war. All this in a world where the geopolitical balance of power is once again becoming multipolar.