Unit X

This book is terrible. This author boasts about all the deals he and his colleagues have made, the “smart” political moves necessary for realizing the whole Unit X and the millions they are spending, about the weapons they were working on, the innovations they are making to be even more effective in war, the modus operandi of high-ranking policiti and military, etc. Read it to know how these assholes reason and what nasty shit they are developing – it shows how Silicon Valley and the US government have started working much more closely together and how that has developed. “An inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal.”