‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive

Mr. Schmidt ultimately agreed. (Mr. Carter did not respond to requests for comment.)

As head of the Defense Innovation Board, Mr. Schmidt began touring military bases, aircraft carriers and plutonium strongholds. The trips, which took Mr. Schmidt to about 100 bases in places like Fayetteville, N.C., and Osan, South Korea, were a distinct break from his well-heeled life in Silicon Valley.

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