This week on The Future Force Report, host Brooke Fallon unpacks the spiraling chaos inside the Pentagon. Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire for installing a rogue “dirty line” in his office—and using it to share classified information via Signal. Meanwhile, a string of firings, resignations, and power plays have left his inner circle in shambles.
Also in this episode:
📡 How Hegseth’s unauthorized network access could compromise national security
💄 The makeover heard round the E-Ring: why the Pentagon’s green room is now a glam station
🥊 The knife-fight inside the SecDef’s office—and why it might not be over
🇨🇳 China’s rare-earth squeeze and growing defense tech footprint
🤖 New DIU hubs, a breakthrough in nano-night vision, and spectrum-sharing demonstrations ahead
⚓ Pentagon eyes autonomous undersea systems as naval force multipliers
💰 A $4.6B growth fund from Founders Fund, and the $10.5B sale of Boeing’s aviation software division
Headlines include:
China’s CNS Shandong carrier deployment near the Philippines
Houthis down 7 U.S. MQ-9 Reapers in recent weeks
Ukraine accuses Chinese nationals of helping Russia produce drones
U.S. considers cutting tactical radios from Army units
Marines deploy NMESIS missiles to Luzon Strait
Whether you’re in the Pentagon or Palo Alto, this is the episode you don’t want to miss.
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Intro / outro music: Experimental Cinematic Hip Hop by Rockot.
Cover art created with OpenAI's Dall-E 3 model.
Brooke Fallon is a fictional host created using OpenAI's GPT-4o and ElevenLabs' Eleven Turbo v2.
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