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Preparing for World War III: The Home Front

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Preparing for World War III: The Home Front
The U.S. flag in Otisville, N.Y., on July 30, 2023. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Michael Hochberg
Leonard Hochberg
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During an interview on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Brigadier General Amit Sa’ar of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) disclosed that he penned a letter intended for Prime Minister Netanyahu just before Oct. 7, 2023, cautioning “that Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah recognized an opportunity to attack Israel ... due to internal conflict ... as well as the level of readiness of the IDF at the time.” His reflection, which focused on military preparation, domestic politics, and international threats, should be taken as a warning for the United States.
Michael Hochberg earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech and is currently the president at Luminous Computing, a company building supercomputers for machine learning. He founded four companies, representing an exit value over a billion dollars in aggregate, spent some time as a tenured professor, and started the world’s first silicon photonics foundry service. He’s authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and has been an inventor on over 60 patents. He also co-authored a widely used textbook on silicon photonics, and has published work in Science, Nature, National Review, The Hill, American Spectator, RealClearDefense, Fast Company, among others.