Are you sick of the bureaucracy, the complacency, and the timidity that has taken over the Pentagon, the think tanks, and the DIB like kudzu? Do you know about a heretical hero, past or present, who raged against the machine and whose example should inspire us today? Do you have ideas for how to fix the mess, move faster, and win—but you think more conventional publications won't give you the time of day?
We want to hear from you.
First Breakfast is a publication for patriots who understand the stakes and the scale of the crisis we face—and who want to help America win. We can still mobilize, we can still regain deterrence, and we can still avert WWIII, on our terms. What we cannot do is repeat the same processes and expect different results.
Our dedicated readership is a mix of active-duty personnel (from privates to four-stars), veterans, techies and builders, defense-industry insiders, civil servants, investors, history buffs, and other patriots who want to do their part in keeping our country safe and prosperous.
Now, as First Breakfast grows, we want to tap our readers’ deep reserves of expertise and genius to disseminate new ideas and provoke new debates.
We’re interested in provocative ideas that might shock the establishment, but that would be incredibly high leverage if implemented. Maybe we need to create a secondary market for defense contracts, blow up JCIDS, or start a reserve officer corps for America’s top technical talent. No idea is off-limits, as long as it is well reasoned and geared toward helping America and our allies move faster and dominate.
Likewise, we’re interested in documenting and analyzing the Defense Reformation as it plays out in Washington, in bustling industrial parks, and on far-flung battlefields. Executive Orders and bills are pouring forth from government at a dizzying pace. World events are battle-testing technology, tactics, and theories in real time. The pace of change is accelerating, and we want to hear from perceptive observers and especially front-line participants about what’s working—and what isn’t.
Finally, we’re looking for stories from history that can inform the present. Our Heretics and Heroes series highlights leaders, past and present, who wrestled with the forces of bureaucracy and entropy to deliver victory. We want to continue that series and supplement it with other historical lessons.
Edward R. Murrow famously said that Winston Churchill “mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.” That is our mission at First Breakfast. We don’t publish “content.” We fire rhetorical munitions to influence the minds of men and bring change to a broken defense industry.
If this mission excites you, we hope you’ll join our growing army of contributors. Email ideas and submissions (we typically publish pieces in the 1,000-2,000 word range) to FBsubmissions@palantir.com for consideration. We hope you’ll answer the call.