"All the military can do is buy space and time and opportunity for a political resolution of a problem, " he said.

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He complimented me and my co-founder and said that he had been pitched by 7 or 8 other companies with a similar idea but this was the first time he actually heard from a team that understood the problem space and had a good solution.

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