// COMING SOON · SELF-PACED COURSE
Understand modern defense, from strategy to software.
A complete course on how militaries fight, buy and innovate, and where defense technology is heading. Built for people moving into defense tech.
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- MODULES
- DIAGRAMS
- US · ISRAEL · NATO
- CAPSTONE PROJECT
- EXPERT REVIEWED
// 01 WHY NOW
Defense tech is being rebuilt in real time.
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A $35,000 drone can force a defender to fire a $4 million missile.
Cheap drones have upended the economics of war, and the race to answer them is reshaping the industry.
02
Budgets are rising fast.
NATO allies have committed to 5% of GDP for defense, and new players are winning contracts once reserved for giants.
03
The customer is unlike any other.
Most newcomers fail not on technology, but on not understanding how militaries are organized, how they buy, and who decides.
// 02 THE CURRICULUM
The fundamentals, the business and the future, in one course.
20 modules in four parts. Click any module to see what's inside.
20 MODULES · 40+ DIAGRAMS · EXERCISES IN EVERY MODULE
How war works, where it's fought, and how we got here.
The core ideas every defense professional needs.
- From politics to purchase: the strategy cascade
- Strategy, operational art and tactics
- Doctrine: the army's shared playbook
- The five domains of war
- The warfighting functions
- Turning a capability gap into a purchase
- Tooth and tail
- The great strategists, from Sun Tzu to Boyd
Why every battlefield demands a different force.
- How terrain shapes war, from deserts and cities to tunnels and the Arctic
- Types of war: peer conflict, hybrid, insurgency, terrorism, proxy and gray zone
- Theater profiles: Indo-Pacific, eastern flank, Middle East, Africa, Arctic
- How armed groups innovate, and the tech that counters them
- The wrong army for the war
A century of military innovation, and the decade that changed everything.
- A century in seven turning points, 1914 to today
- The starting point in 2016
- Five shifts: great-power competition, drones, air defense, software and AI, money and industry
- Then and now
The geopolitics that drive every defense budget.
- From unipolar to multipolar
- The main players and the "axis of upheaval"
- The Western alliance under strain
- Nuclear weapons and deterrence
- Peace through strength: does it work?
- Diplomacy, treaties, sanctions and tariffs
// 03 WHO IT'S FOR
Built for people entering the defense world.
Sales and BD professionals
Understand the customer and hold credible conversations with military buyers.
Founders and startup teams
Navigate SBIR, DIU and the valley of death, and design for the soldier.
Engineers and product managers
Learn what fieldable really means: size, weight, power, jamming and testing.
Investors and analysts
Separate real technology from hype and see where budgets are flowing.
Consultants and policy professionals
A structured grounding across militaries, procurement and industry.
Veterans entering industry
The business side you didn't see in uniform: money, contracts and startups.
// 04 THE FORMAT
Self-paced
About 5 hours of core reading, or 50+ hours with all exercises.
Visual
40+ diagrams, maps and case studies.
Practical
Exercises, self-checks and a portfolio-ready capstone.
Current
Up to date through 2026: Ukraine, the Middle East, Golden Dome and AI.
// 05 WHY I BUILT THIS
Most 15-year-olds don't read The Art of War for fun.
I grew up in Johannesburg, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Our home was robbed again and again, and as a child I had a gun held to my head, and to my mother's. I became obsessed with never being helpless again.
When I was 11, I watched footage of the Ramallah lynching: two Israeli reservists murdered and their bodies dragged through the streets. That image has stayed with me for life. As a Jew, I've lived my people's history firsthand, through war and through antisemitism in South Africa, the UK and the US.
All of it led to one obsession: how people, and nations, defend themselves. I dreamed of serving. Instead, my career took me into tech startups, where I've closed six- and seven-figure enterprise deals and contributed chapters to three Routledge books on AI and teams.
Today defense and technology have collided. When I went looking for one place to learn it all, it didn't exist. So I built it.
Bentzy Goldman, creator of Defense Tech Decoded
The course is currently being reviewed by former military officers and defense-tech leaders.
// 06 FAQ
Questions
We're finalizing expert reviews now. Waitlist members get first access and launch pricing.
No. The course starts from the fundamentals and is written in plain English.
It covers the US in depth, plus Israel and NATO/Europe, and how they compare.
No. Everything is based on public sources.
It will be under $250. Waitlist members get 50% off at launch.
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