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In 2025, Alex Karp, the CEO of government and military tech contractor Palantir, published The New York Times best-seller,\u00a0The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West<\/em>.\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0praised the book as a\u00a0cri de coeur<\/em>, a passionate appeal \u201cthat takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies,\u201d while\u00a0Wired<\/a>\u00a0praised the book as a \u201creadable polemic that skewers Silicon Valley for insufficient patriotism.\u201d<\/p>\n On April 18, 2026, Palantir posted twenty-two points to social media\u00a0summarizing the book<\/a>. In addition to taking Silicon Valley to task for insufficient patriotism, advocating a role for AI in forever war, and denouncing the \u201cpsychologization of modern politics,\u201d the Palantir post on X declares: \u201cNational service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n National conscription, a form of involuntary servitude, and the wars it portends, are good for business, especially for corporations within the orbit of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the national security state. Palantir fits comfortably within this amalgamation.<\/p>\n Mass Murder by Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n Project Maven is an AI-driven battlefield intelligence system designed by the corporation. The Defense Department, now known as the War Department, employed Maven in 2024 for \u201ctargeting support\u201d in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Maven\u00a0incorporates<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0AI model Claude<\/a>, built by Anthropic.<\/p>\n More recently, in US airstrikes against Iran, \u201cAI systems born from Project Maven have helped identify and prioritize thousands of targets, accelerating intelligence analysis and operational planning,\u201d explains the\u00a0Center for a New American Security<\/a>, a military think tank founded by Mich\u00e8le Flournoy, a former under secretary of defense with links to\u00a0Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems<\/a>. She was the\u00a0principal adviser<\/a>\u00a0to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy.<\/p>\n Maven was reportedly used to shorten the \u201ckill chain\u201d during Israel\u2019s invasion of Gaza. \u201cI am proud that we are supporting Israel in every way we can,\u201d\u00a0CEO Karp<\/a>\u00a0exclaimed. Following the Gaza al-Aqsa Flood in October, 2023, Palantir \u201cprovided Israel with multiple AI-powered data analytics tools for military and intelligence purposes,\u201d notes the\u00a0American Friends Service Committee<\/a>. The corporation has a \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d with Israel\u2019s Ministry of Defense to assist the Zionist state and its \u201cwar effort\u201d against Palestinian resistance to Israeli military occupation, an armed struggle recognized under\u00a0international law<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the genocide in Gaza advances, attention is turning to the companies whose technologies may be facilitating Israel\u2019s daily atrocities, with US-based Palantir Technologies among them,\u201d reports the\u00a0Business and Human Rights Center<\/a>. \u201cWhile the International Criminal Court (ICC) is stepping in to address genocide accusations, the tech barons who design and supply the tools of warfare remain largely unchallenged.\u201d<\/p>\n Another Israeli AI-based targeting system, Lavender, ostensibly developed by the IDF\u2019s Unit 8200, is said to be a Palantir project. Palantir rejected this assertion in a letter sent to\u00a0Francesca Albanese<\/a>, the sanctioned United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. In the letter, Palantir stressed it \u201cstands in solidarity with Israel in response to the horrific attacks on 7 October, 2023. Our work in Israel long predates the 7 October attacks and is in line with our global commitment to U.S. allies and liberal democracies. We proudly support our partners in Israel across a multitude of mission sets, programs, and contexts.\u201d<\/p>\n Israel utilized Palantir in its September 2024 attacks in Lebanon, employing exploding electronic pagers that resulted in numerous fatalities and injuries, writes\u00a0AFSC\u2019s Investigate<\/a>. In addition to its collaboration with the Israeli military, Palantir also provides the Gaza Civil-Military Coordination Center with its services. This center is located at the US military compound in Kiryat Gat, which was established in October 2025 to implement the Trump administration\u2019s plan for Gaza. Iran targeted Kiryat Gat in March, 2026.<\/p>\n Maven, incorporating\u00a0Anthropic\u2019s Claude<\/a>, was used to target the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran,\u00a0killing 180 people<\/a>, mostly young girls.\u00a0President Trump<\/a>\u00a0praised Palantir Technologies, saying the company \u201chas proven to have great war-fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies,\u201d apparently including children.<\/p>\n