The US military is changing shape: it’s increasingly high-tech, intelligence led, and focused on assassinations. In short, the Israeli model.

And the changing shape of war means changing flows of money and power. The primes, which have dominated the military industrial for decades, now face competition from Silicon Valley companies like Palantir and Anduril.

But does their tech actually work? Or does it just drag the US into wars it doesn’t even know why it’s fighting?

Do Your Own Research is a new show from Novara Media mapping the systems that make the modern world possible.

Music by Iglooghost.