Shyam Sankar

1/ We are in an undeclared state of emergency. America's adversaries are circling, and the American industrial base that dominated the 20th century is dormant. For the CCP, it is not enough for China to prosper... America must fall. It's time to Mobilize. Coming March 2026.

"AI is going to be the antidote to the managerial revolution of the 20th century." - Palantir CTO @ssankar "All this power that was sucked away from the frontline workers, who actually knew what they were doing, to an amorphous blob of middle managers — that's being reversed. All the bureaucracy is getting cut." "In the military, I'm seeing incredible AI application developers who are not formally trained computer scientists. What happened? I've been doing this for 20 years. This feels like a discontinuity. Where did these people come from?" "I realized they've always been there. The thing is — what would this guy have done 10 years ago? Make a PowerPoint? Try to convince some program manager that his ideas were good, only to be told they weren't?" "Now he just goes away in a corner for 2 weeks and builds it. And he's arguing about something that's empirical. And the commander is like, 'This works. Let's go.'"

@ChairmanG 🤣🫡🇺🇸

There are two things most people who don't know @ssankar well (or only know him as an engineer) would be surprised to learn: (1) he has a freakish deadlift, it's actually upsetting how much weight he can deadlift; (2) he just wrote an incredible book. On #2, if you want to learn the true story of Project Maven, if you want to understand how we mobilize to prevent WW3, or if you just want to learn to be a better leader and patriot, read this book (it's also very fun to read). In general I don't promote heresy during Lent, but this is the heretic's guide to saving the Republic.

“It was the American Industrial Base that underwrote American victory and Pax Americana. It can once again if we embrace it as our savior.” - Palantir CTO, @ssankar Mobilize 🇺🇸

2/ Learn more about Mobilize and get your copy here: mobilizebook.com

1/ Today is the last day to preorder my book Mobilize: How the Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III. Mobilize tells the story of American defense innovation that won the 20th century. It shows how bureaucracy broke the Pentagon—and how a Defense Reformation led by heretical heroes is bringing speed, mass, and deterrence back to our military. This book couldn’t be timelier. The mission couldn’t be more urgent. Join the ranks of the heretical heroes. It’s time to mobilize.

“They got the bomb because we had geniuses working on the Manhattan Project, and a small number of them thought we should tell the Soviets that we were building this thing. If we tell them, they won’t be scared. Another guy, Theodore Hall, one of the youngest members of the Manhattan Project, was 18 years old working on this. He actually walked to the Soviet trade mission in New York and told them, ‘Hey, I’m building this bomb,’ and then later went back with technical specifications.” @ssankar

“The victors of that war knew something that future generations in the West would tragically forget: Industrial power wins wars.”—my @FreeBeacon review of @ssankar & @Madeline_Zimm new book

. You thought I was joking about Reindustrializing America. I was not. Tune in March 20th for the the start - not the end - of the largest private Marshall plan ever devised. Alabama and F4 is the start. Winning the Production war is the end.

“Maduro. You know, there's a lot going on. All these things are happening against the backdrop of China still. So even though sometimes China’s taken a backseat, it is the driving force here. You know who’s buying the Iranian oil that keeps the regime going? And what is the industrial base that's supporting Russia's war machine? These pieces are interconnected.” @ssankar

Ed's genius ran in the family. His little brother Theodore was a Harvard prodigy and one of the youngest scientists at Los Alamos. He played a critical role in testing the nuclear bomb. Here the brothers' stories diverge. As Ted worked on the bomb, he had political discussions with other scientists. He grew increasingly alarmed by the idea that the American government would get nuclear weapons first. "It seemed to me that an American monopoly was dangerous and should be prevented," he recalled half a century later. The peace of the world was at stake—or so it seemed to him. So in 1944, Ted walked into a Soviet trade mission in New York and announced that the Americans were building a superweapon. He later shared details about the bomb's design. Combined with intelligence from the atomic spy Klaus Fuchs, Hall's information accelerated the Soviet nuclear program. The Soviets detonated their first bomb years ahead of schedule in 1949. Ted Hall's jagged intelligence led him down a treacherous path. He started in the name of world peace. He ended up helping communists with the blood of 100 million people on their hands. Genius is no guarantee of wisdom. Ted Hall proved that. The question is whether we will learn from the half-century of misery he helped create. Or whether we will repeat the error with technologies far more consequential than the atom bomb. Will we be Ed or Ted?

The team of uniformed services members won. It was not even close. We held a customer hackathon at @PalantirTech DevCon5 last week. The vast majority of the competitors represented the best of the US private sector. Highly capable developers. And one all-military team of coders. The most contrarian thing I can tell you right now: the best AI talent in America is wearing the cloth of the nation. 🇺🇸🫡

“If Silicon Valley believes we’re going to take everyone’s white collar jobs AND screw the military…If you don’t think that’s going to lead to the nationalization of our technology— you’re retarded.” -Alex Karp @palantirtech at @a16z American Dynamism Summit

What I’m showing Mr. Karp is a tool we built on Palantir called Terminal Guidance. It is insane.

This is a note I received from a frontline user of Palantir. When people ask how we fought through the pain and chaos of the company's early days or why we're still sprinting full speed 20+ years in, I think to myself: What other choice do we have? "…I joined the military right out of high school, not out of some deep sense of patriotism, but to escape the cyclical vices that had destroyed what remained of my family. I had no idea how profoundly my motivations would change. I spent my career in special operations, working alongside units solving this nation's most complex problems. It was in that environment that I first encountered Palantir. What began as a tool became something closer to an extension of my mind. As the intelligence and targeting chief for my team, Palantir was instrumental not just in my ability to contribute, but in our collective ability to find, fix, and finish our targets, while simultaneously exploiting troves of technical data we collected. We used to say, 'give us actionable intelligence, and we will give you victory.' That is what Palantir provides — victory. I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge that we killed a lot of people over the years. But among all the numbers from those deployments, the one that matters most to me is zero. Zero is the number of teammates we lost on several deployments. I attribute that, in no small part, to your software. Of course, there were times when not everyone came home. That is the nature of the work, but without Palantir, I believe that number would have been exponentially higher. As we were discussing the concept of the West and defining American values, I couldn't help but examine my own life…I ask myself how a kid who grew up on food stamps, who by every measurable statistic should be a drug addict, in prison, or dead, arrived at some of this nation's most powerful institutions. The only answer I can find is opportunity. Hard work matters, certainly. But billions of people work hard and never see opportunity. What separates their lives from mine is not effort. It is the system they were born into. My previous profession took me around the world. I have seen cultures where human trafficking and slavery are normalized, where your outcome in life is determined entirely by some arbitrary fact of your birth. I have seen what the absence of the American idea looks like. And I have come to understand that what we call Western values are not abstractions debated in classrooms. They are the difference between a life defined by circumstance and a life defined by choice. When people at school ask me why I joined, I tell them I joined to escape, but I stayed because the ideas baked into our Constitution are worth defending. Because the American dream is not dead. And to say it is, or that it never existed is to deny that I, and millions of Americans who came from worse and achieved more, ever existed. I tell them when certain voices describe Western or American cultural identity as thin, or as a lie, this simply is not true. It is real. It is tangible. And it is worth protecting. To me, that is what Palantir does. Not simply by providing a service to the government but by upholding a way of life. Ultimately, I just wanted to say thank you, not just as a customer, but as someone whose teammates came home because of what you built. Putting the most capable tech in the hands of the warfighter to kill the enemies of this country is no small undertaking. I am grateful. My friends are grateful. And whether America will ever be able to fully articulate it, I suspect it is too."

There will always be a rules-based international order. The only Questions are: - Who gets to decide the rules? - Who is going to enforce the rules?