Peter Robison

Author of Flying Blind, the Boeing 737 MAX book Kyle read primarily as Anduril-context — Boeing’s collapse as the case-in-chief for what happens when an industrial culture gets hollowed out. Robison’s central framing is that shareholder primacy and post–Cold War financialization created the conditions that produced the MAX, putting his diagnosis in direct conversation with The Man Who Broke Capitalism (same thesis, applied to a single company). His reporting threads in John Hart-Smith’s “Out-Sourced Profits” critique of subcontracting, Jack Welch’s GE template imported via the McDonnell Douglas merger, and Dennis Muilenburg’s protect-the-product-before-people response to the crashes as the culminating failure.

Context: Peter Robison is a Bloomberg investigative journalist who covered Boeing for years; Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (2021) grew out of that reporting.

Where this appears

• Flying Blind — author of the book; his financialization-and-outsourcing thesis frames Kyle’s Key Takeaways and Connections.