The Pentagon
also referred to as: pentagon
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 10, 2026 by Sham Sankar · said 7 times in 3 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sham Sankar (4), Gavin Baker (2), Walter Russell Mead (1)
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Mar 10, 2026 bullish
Sankar: The Pentagon increasingly treats defense tech startups as Plan A
“Increasingly in conversations that I have in, in, in the Pentagon, I hear some of these new entrants are talked about as plan A. It's not plan B. It's not, hey, we'll see, maybe this will work in the future. It's like, no, no, this is the plan, and we'll, we'l…”
Mar 10, 2026
Sep 8, 2026 bearish
Mead warns America's massive legacy weapon stockpiles invite technological disruption
“And it's also for us as a, as the power that has the most stuff, we're actually the most vulnerable to technological change because we've got more, we've got so many tanks that the tank becomes useless. That's more of a problem for us than it is for somebody w…”