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Warren Kanders is the kind of free‑market success story America should celebrate: a former banker who parlayed hard work, timing, and blunt business sense into a company that supplies lifesaving gear to law enforcement and the military. His Jacksonville‑based Cadre Holdings makes body armor, bomb suits, duty gear and even crowd control tools, and has quietly become a backbone supplier to allies and American first responders as global tensions rise. The market is rewarding companies that actually provide real security instead of virtue signaling, and that’s precisely what Cadre does.
Kanders didn’t stumble into this. He has spent decades building and buying businesses in the mission‑critical safety space, deliberately expanding into nuclear remediation and robotics with acquisitions like Alpha Safety and Carr’s Engineering as well as zirconium material buys. That pivot into nuclear cleanup and spent‑fuel handling shows the sort of strategic foresight you don’t get from bureaucrats or grant‑writing NGOs; it comes from investors who see real problems and build real solutions. Cadre’s own filings and investor presentations make clear this is a disciplined roll‑up strategy, not the hollow buzzword capitalism the left pretends to admire.
The payoff has been unmistakable: the company’s revenues and margins are improving, the stock has rallied, and Kanders’ stake has pushed him into billionaire territory — a vindication of American entrepreneurship over safe‑space comfort. Investors are voting with their dollars for companies that actually secure people and property, not lecture Americans about morality while leaving them vulnerable. That kind of market discipline is what builds prosperity and funds the technologies our troops and first responders need.
Cadre is also making conventional defense plays that matter on the ground: the firm announced its acquisition of TYR Tactical to expand plate carrier and armor production for European and NATO partners, and a Cadre subsidiary won a multi‑year $50 million Department of Defense contract for blast‑exposure monitoring. Those deals are the lifeblood of a robust industrial base and reinforce why rebuilding American manufacturing and supply chains is not optional—it’s patriotic. Private companies stepping up to meet national needs deserve praise, not the sneers of coastal elites who prefer cable‑tv condemnation over real work.
Critics will bleat about crowd control munitions and complain whenever law enforcement does its job, but the sober facts show Cadre derives the bulk of its revenue from government and international military customers supplying essential protection equipment. Governments across the West are rearming and prioritizing readiness, and American firms should capture that demand to keep the work and the jobs stateside. It’s better for Americans to manufacture body armor and bomb suits here than to rely on distant adversaries or send taxpayer dollars into unaccountable hands overseas.
This is a simple choice for patriotic Americans: support companies that produce security, invest in resilient supply chains, and ensure our military and first responders have the gear they need. Warren Kanders and Cadre are doing the hard, sometimes unpopular work of defending lives and cleaning up dangerous legacies like nuclear waste while private capital foots the bill and creates jobs. If conservatives want a stronger country, we should cheer on entrepreneurs who answer the call when the world grows more dangerous, not kneel to the performative outrage machine.
