Goat Rodeo #51 Ft. Ross Coffman - Tanks Are Obsolete, Angine de Poitrine, and the Future of Ground Autonomy

This Episode:This week on Goat Rodeo, Garrett Smith, Dave Caudle, and Simon Coon are joined by retired US Army General Ross Coffman, former Commanding Deputy at Army Futures Command and a 35-year veteran of nearly every major American conflict and military transition of the last three decades.The conversation opens on the avant-garde French-Canadian band Angine de Poitrine and what their aggressively unreplicable sound says about human creativity in the age of AI. The crew then turns to US ground force readiness in the context of the Iran conflict, with Ross raising immediate concerns around logistics, magazine depth, and sustainment over a long-term campaign. From there, the group tackles the big question — are tanks obsolete — with Ross revealing his own role in launching the M1E3 Abrams program and what lighter, faster, more survivable armor looks like in a drone-saturated battlefield. The episode closes on Lockheed Ventures doubling its fund to $1 billion and what that signals about how the prime contractor set is positioning itself in the defense innovation economy.Our Podcast:National security, defense tech, and geopolitics; serious topics, but that doesn't mean we have to be boring about it. The Goat Rodeo Podcast brings you three military veterans turned defense insiders, breaking down the biggest stories shaping the future of warfare. Expect sharp insights, unfiltered debates, and the occasional defense industry hot take, because let's be honest, this space can be a total goat rodeo.Listen on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/GoatRodeoPodcast