Who was the man behind the Arsenal of Democracy? In 1941 he produced: - 19,209 planes, - 50,684 aircraft engines, - 97,000 machine guns, and much more. Of course he was fired without warning for political reasons. But Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones stepped in. He was back

This stunning chart shows the profound impact of the Last Supper. When the Berlin Wall fell ONLY 6% of Department of Defense 🇺🇸 spend went to defense companies. The rest went to company with commercial and government business -- companies like Ford, Chrysler, Kodak, General Mills.

⁦Maureen Dowd⁩: You commissioned a French comic book, “Palantir: L’Indépendance,” with yourself as the protagonist. Alex Karp: Oui!

When Healthcare(dot)gov crashed catastrophically, he said, "Send Air Force One out to Silicon Valley, load it up with smart people, bring them back to Washington and fix this problem." That's basically how it was fixed. First Breakfast's Heretics & Heroes reminds us that

The way hyperscalers deprecated infra, AIP will deprecate backend. Dive into why ontology is going to make this possible. In a world where there is only the quick and the dead, you need Ontology. Listen to my conversation with Tobias Schlottke link.alphalist.com/ShyamSankar

It turns out the post-Cold War peace dividend was in fact really expensive. The First Breakfast is focused on fixing that. Thank you Margaux MacColl for sharing how we are mobilizing the ecosystem for mission. - Modern Manufacturing OS with WarpSpeed - Accreditation with

This weekend Founder Mode went viral and an American citizen was executed by a terrorist organization after 11 months of failed negotiation. An important time to resurface Karp's take on Founders. Excellence on the world stage not just the silicon valley one please.

Billy Mitchell put his career—and his life—on the line to promote military aviation. He believed that the military's old guard was stuck in the past, dedicated to obsolete platforms like battleships. Airpower was the future. Mitchell punctured the prestige of the mighty

Shots Fired. Shots Fired. Civilians in Contact. 100,000 Americans die each year in CCP’s Reverse Opium War. If the weapon was conventional, we would have mobilized America's special operators to take enemy combatants off the battlefield.

The common refrain I hear: The Ukrainians have sunk half the Russian Black Sea fleet and they don’t even have a Navy. I think they sunk half the Black Sea Fleet BECAUSE they didn’t have a Navy.

Palantir is the first defense company since 1978 to make it to the S & P 500, minus spin outs and mergers. It shouldn’t be the last: we need a broader defense ecosystem to fuel constant competition and innovation for the warfighter.