The Coup D'état of Techno-Authoritarians

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Francesca Bria At the end of July 2025, in the depths of the Pentagon's bureaucratic machinery in Arlington, Virginia, the U.S. Army discreetly signed the cession of a critical piece of its sovereignty. The $10 billion contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in department history—was presented as a matter of administrative efficiency, consolidating 75 separate acquisition agreements into a single package. But behind the technocrat…