This is good, and as always your graphics are really amazing. Have you seen Anthony King's book on AI and war? I like it very much. In fact I am teaching it this afternoon. He brings the keen eye of a sociologist to understanding what organizations actually do with AI. And an important point he makes is that all the tactical speedups you describe here actually have the effect of making war more protracted. AI tends to reinforce the slow attritional style of modern war. I think the evidence is very much with him, but the AI narrative is all about swarming and decisive effects.
This is good, and as always your graphics are really amazing. Have you seen Anthony King's book on AI and war? I like it very much. In fact I am teaching it this afternoon. He brings the keen eye of a sociologist to understanding what organizations actually do with AI. And an important point he makes is that all the tactical speedups you describe here actually have the effect of making war more protracted. AI tends to reinforce the slow attritional style of modern war. I think the evidence is very much with him, but the AI narrative is all about swarming and decisive effects.
Didn’t machine guns, tanks, poison gas and telegrams do the same thing during WWI? Perhaps for the same reason?
This holds up pretty well: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691128023/military-power
King's book is on my reading list; will bump it up!