● Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III
Shyam Sankar and Madeline Hart
Review via The Wall Street Journal
Shyam Sankar is a Silicon Valley Paul Revere. The chief technology officer of the software company Palantir, Mr. Sankar comes at us with warnings of imminent danger, although not on a galloping steed. Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.
“Mobilize,” written with the assistance of Madeline Hart, a strategist at Palantir, intends to jolt us out of our national-security slumber. “Complacency in peacetime can lead to war,” Mr. Sankar writes. (The book went to print before the U.S.-Israeli use of force against Iran.)