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Marc Andreessen joins the Pentagon’s board, and the old line blurs

Andreessen now advises the Pentagon’s leadership on the very decisions his firm has invested billions around. It is legal, and it raises a question the rules were built to answer.

Pete Hegseth announced the membership of a freshly cleared-out Defense Policy Board, the advisory panel that counsels the Pentagon’s civilian leadership on force structure, modernisation, and the shape of American military strategy.

Thirteen names were on the list.

The chair went to Robert Lighthizer, the former trade representative. The vice chair went to Norm Coleman, a former senator.

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And tucked among the appointees, between the diplomats and the defence hands, was a venture capitalist whose firm has spent the past three years assembling one...

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