Logistics Wins Wars

In this episode of Tacos & Tech, Neal Bloom sits down with Peter Goldsborough, co-founder and CTO of Rune, to unpack one of the most overlooked but decisive factors in modern warfare: logistics.

Peter shares how his background in software and defense tech led him to a simple realization-while billions have been spent on weapons and command systems, military logistics still runs on spreadsheets, whiteboards, and paper. The conversation explores why future conflicts will be won or lost on decision speed, not firepower, and how Rune is turning logistics into a real-time, data-driven decision system used by the Army and Marines today.

This episode dives into defense innovation, software in degraded environments, and why fixing logistics isn’t just a military problem-it’s a cognitive one.

Key Topics

* Why logistics decides wars

* The problem with spreadsheets and whiteboards in the DoD

* Turning logistics into a real-time decision system

* Defense tech speed vs legacy procurement

* Software for disconnected and high-stress environments

* Lessons from Ukraine and the Pacific theater

* When logistics becomes the bottleneck

* Building resilient software for the physical world

Links

* Rune

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* Peter Goldsborough

* Neal Bloom

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