Four years ago today, Russia invaded Ukraine.

The 20th century is over. The peace we hoped would extend from the ‘90s deep into the new millennium is gone, and a new 21st-century Cold War is here.

We find ourselves in a new winter.
And war has entered its next era.

Ukraine didn’t just adapt. They showed us what’s coming. Cheap garage drones can destroy million-dollar armored vehicles. The next IED doesn’t sit under a road. It flies. While a lesson of the drone revolution is that mass matters, the complete lesson is that it is still the individual Warrior who makes the difference.

As technology evolves and the battlefield becomes flatter, the Warrior’s edge is defined by the speed of innovation in software and tactics.

Authoritarian states, failed states, and nonstate actors are armed with data, AI, and autonomous weapons systems with the capability to subvert Western governments and undermine global stability. We and our friends face possible conflict on every continent against adversaries with weapons of war that are increasingly faster, more intelligent, less expensive, and more lethal. We have to adapt.

The truth is, America isn’t ready.

For decades, America failed to invest in the infantry. We know because we are those Warriors. We fought the Global War on Terror with what we had, not with what we needed. 

We will be in a shooting war in this decade. American Warriors will heed the call and fight, and some will die.

We need to give them the tools to win and come home, and we need to do it yesterday, years ago, and right now. We will not allow the same mistakes to be made again. We will not send America’s youth into harm's way with gear that fails in contested environments: paper maps, outdated radios, frail networks, and empty promises that billion-dollar platforms will save them.

While the character of war evolves, the nature of war remains the same.

It is the American Warrior — the infantryman, the squad leader, the soldier, the Marine, the special operator, the junior and noncommissioned officer who constitutes the West’s unfair advantage in the tactical fight. There is no excuse not to equip our Warriors with the best technology, training, tactics, and the authority to act. That commitment is how America restores deterrence, secures peace, and guarantees victory.

This is why we built Reveal: the Digital Arms Room for the Modern Warrior.

Let’s bet on the American Warrior. Let’s be ready to fight tonight. Let’s make it an unfair fight. Built by those who have fought. For those who will.

Because America deserves no less.