etired Navy Adm. William McRaven’s nearly 40-year career in the U.S. military has spanned everything from deployments as a Navy SEAL, hunting down high-value targets overseas, commanding U.S Special Operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and advising Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Almost all of this is going to be focused on veterans and their families, and I'm working through how best to use this money and leverage so that we can maximize the impact. I will definitely be focusing on the children of the fallen, the Gold Star children who've lost fathers and mothers in combat. I've been working with an organization for many years called the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
The military has always been an organization that will adopt new technology on the battlefield in hopes of gaining some advantage over the enemy. As we begin to look at AI and machine learning, its ability to discriminate between good guys and bad guys is important. Nobody in the military wants to inadvertently kill civilians.
The fact of matter is, the world needs U.S. leadership. Even people that disagree with our politics understand that U.S. leadership is the most important leadership in the world, because who else is going to lead if we don't? Nobody of any consequence really wants Russia or China leading, certainly not our allies. So we need to continue to make sure that we...keep those alliances strong, whether it's in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, or building alliances in the Middle East.