
A top Palantir [PLTR] executive last week offered a sweeping set of recommendations—he calls them theses—for transforming the way the Defense Departments buys weapons and systems, and how U.S. industry develops these products and goes to market. In The Defense Reformation, Shyam Sankar argues the U.S. “is in an undeclared state of emergency” because China is a peer adversary, the U.S. has lost the ability to deter, and the defense industrial base cannot produce even the minimum number of platforms…