As artificial intelligence spreads across the U.S. military, the real concern is not a rogue supercomputer, but whether human oversight can keep pace with systems designed to move faster than people.

“It’s dead on arrival,” Gene Fidell, an expert on the Uniform Code of Military Justice who teaches at Yale Law, told me. “If this ever gets in front of a judge, the judge is going to say, ‘Fuck you.’”

In 2025, artificial intelligence moved from pilot projects to practical use across the U.S. military. From Army intel and predictive maintenance to Navy undersea operations, Marine Corps command-and-control,

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump called for increasing the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 defense budget to $1.5 trillion, rather than $1 trillion he said he previously wanted to propose. We preliminarily estimate that this would increase defense spending by $5 trillion through 2035,

“We’re cooked,” one Army aviator said recently, describing the reactions of fellow students at the service’s helicopter flight school to Sikorsky’s new uncrewed Black Hawk. “Why are we even doing this, for real?” As the Army races to realize ...

U.S. soldiers fire an M777 Howitzer during an operational exercise at Mission Support Site Conaco, Syria, Dec. 4, 2022. (Sgt. Julio Hernandez/Army) The U.S. Army is looking for companies that can manufacture the new XM1208 155mm cluster shell — and a ...

A fundamental change came in December 2022 when former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government adopted a security strategy stating the need for Japan to acquire strike-back capability with long-range missiles, a major break from Japan’s self-defense-only policy.

The Army is scrapping its Spiritual Fitness Guide after less than five months in use. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the change in a video on social media on Tuesday. He largely addressed changes to the Army Chaplain Corps, in which he said that ...

President says he wants to raise military budget to $1.5tn and accuses US defense companies of delivery failures