Like his longtime boss Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Sankar likes to wax poetic about protecting Western values and how America’s industrial base stumbled after its WWII glory days (though perhaps prime defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, would disagree that the industry has been resting on its laurels for 80 years). Sitting in a conference room lined with white boards, and a constant stream of commercial planes flying over the Potomac River behind him, he reiterated his darkest fears: that America may not be ready for whatever great conflict comes next.
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