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Lord Beaverbrook’s Production Magic
Forceful leadership, media savvy supercharged Spitfire production and won the Battle of Britain.
Sep 16
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Austin Gray
23
The Defense Production Act Needs a Reboot
75 years after enactment, DPA needs to be reoriented to national security—and Pentagon officials must use it more creatively.
Sep 11
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Nadia Schadlow
17
Call for Submissions
Join First Breakfast's growing army of contributors.
Sep 4
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Shyam Sankar
,
Greg Little
,
Madeline Hart
, and
Blake Seitz
17
August 2025
Dropping the Bomb on JCIDS
The Defense Reformation advances. The heretical heroes are in control.
Aug 28
•
Shyam Sankar
35
From Cost Plus to Cost Minus
A Contract Model That Aligns Vendors With Taxpayers—Not Timesheets
Aug 26
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Alex Miller
and
Greg Little
32
Freedom’s Firewall
Why Europe’s defense revival matters to America.
Aug 14
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Greg Little
21
Barter: How Weapons Swaps Can Fix Europe’s Broken Arms Industries
A politically feasible way to boost European defense production.
Aug 5
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Timothy Liptrot
13
July 2025
Announcing the Rickover Corpus
A digital library for leadership and reform.
Jul 29
•
Charles Yang
27
Eugene Fubini, Heretic in the Control Room
He jammed Axis radars, then built the bridge between industry and government in the Cold War.
Jul 23
•
Ross Fubini
24
Mike Gallagher Breaks Down the '12 Day War,' Operation Midnight Hammer
First Breakfast sat down with Mike Gallagher, Head of Defense at Palantir, to discuss “The 12 Day War” and Operation Midnight Hammer, the American…
Jul 15
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Blake Seitz
and
Mike Gallagher
10
48:08
Independence Day
A reflection on America's first national mobilization.
Jul 3
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Shyam Sankar
,
Greg Little
,
Madeline Hart
, and
Blake Seitz
25
Joseph Desch, American Codebreaker
A quiet engineer in Ohio united government and industry to break the Nazi Enigma.
Jul 1
•
Peter Minetos
10
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