Pentagon wants to quickly build a new kind of war machine, but will those ‘miracle weapons’ live up to the hype?
The Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. Pentagon officials and the tech industry are touting the advantages of an AI-based military.
The history of “miracle weapons” does not bode well for the likely outcome of the current military tech surge. From the “after the end of the Cold War, military history is littered with examples of new weapons concepts that were supposed to revolutionize warfare and give the United States an unbeatable edge.
There are already signs that the new age weapons touted by the Pentagon and the tech industry are not all they are cracked up to be. A Wall Street Journal found that small drones produced by U.S. defense startups were so brittle and so costly that the Ukrainian military stopped using them and started buying cheaper, more reliable Chinese systems instead.
If the venture capital and tech firms that stand to benefit most from this brave new world of warfare have their way, we will rush these technologies into production and deployment prematurely, at great financial and security risk.
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