TOLSTOY’S COMPLAINT: MISSION COMMAND IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Theo Lipsky | 07.01.25

What will become of battlefield command in the years ahead? This question is at the heart of the US Army’s once-in-a-generation reforms now underway. In search of answers, the Army looks to Ukraine. Events there suggest at least two truths. One is that decentralized command, which the US Army calls mission command and claims as its mode, will endure as a virtue. A second is that future commanders will use artificial intelligence to inform every decision—where to go, whom to kill, and whom to save.


Source: https://mwi.westpoint.edu/tolstoys-complaint-mission-command-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/


Published: 13/07/25