3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (289+ words) Answering that question requires deliberate thinking about the role of the action officer, the work they perform, and their operating environment. To build a flexible, responsible system for automating action officer duties, agencies must first answer the classic question posed…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (160+ words) The second revolution is AI. The use of AI in wargame play is not new, but we believe advancements in large language models like Retrieval-Augmented Generation and agentic AI models provide capabilities that will be revolutionary. The work needed is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (185+ words) European states currently depend on foreign countries and their private tech firms for more than 80 percent of their critical digital products, services, infrastructure, and intellectual property. Europe lacks sufficient access to semiconductor production capacity and the domestic industrial capacity and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (791+ words) My greatest challenge while flight testing collaborative combat aircraft was not troubleshooting errors at high speed in the cockpit. It was when, in a single keystroke, my job shifted from pilot to something like a dog handler — a supervisor of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (459+ words) North of the Pentagon, a task force few know about operates in a Maryland basement. They collect intelligence, develop missions, and execute against targets 24/7 within their commander’s intent, even when he is unreachable. Senior leaders should stop treating AI agents…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (358+ words) In 2015, I believed the fringe position that by 2035 autonomous systems for defense would become ubiquitous. First, there would be swarms of robots on the battlefield. Second, every military asset would be powered and piloted by physical AI. The saying “hardware…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (43+ words) War on the Rocks When the world's at stake, National security. For insiders. By insiders. Join War on the Rocks and gain access to content trusted by policymakers, military leaders, and strategic thinkers worldwide....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (170+ words) Xi could reverse this quickly if he chose. A single plenary session of the Central Committee would be enough to reshuffle the commission through normal party procedures, and such sessions have been held routinely in the past. That he has…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (339+ words) Neither number had been delivered by a technical expert wielding a seismograph. Each represented a political judgment about how much residual uncertainty its government should accept. The negotiations failed to produce a comprehensive ban. The treaty signed later that year…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (473+ words) Unlike the narrow AI systems the Pentagon has fielded for years, which do one task and stay fixed, generative models do many tasks and change constantly. That renders the traditional “test now, deploy forever” approach obsolete and requires new training…...