Palantir: “National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force.”

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Palantir calling for a draft.

This comes directly from a manifesto drawn from CEO Alex Karp’s 2025 book The Technological Republic (co-written with Nicholas W. Zamiska). It argues that the engineering elite and society at large have a moral obligation to share the burdens of national defense, rather than relying solely on volunteers.

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