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"Understanding the extent to which AI will change the character of warfare and strategic competition requires a deeper understanding of the relationship between information, organizational dynamics, and military power. To assess how militaries may adopt AI, and where they may go wrong, Benjamin Jensen, Christopher Whyte, and Scott Cuomo offer a conceptual framework and analyze past examples of successes and failures in innovation with military information technologies. Their comparative historical case studies include radar, the switch to early computers in air-defense coordination, battle networks in the Revolution in Military Affairs, and remotely piloted aerial vehicles"--
About the author
Benjamin M. Jensen is a professor at the Marine Corps University's School of Advanced Warfighting, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and an officer in the US Army Reserves with multiple deployments.
Christopher Whyte is an assistant professor at the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Lt. Col. Scott Cuomo (USMC) is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, served as the Marine Corps representative on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, and is currently assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy focused on Strategy and Force Development.
Summary
In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize the way we live and transform how we wage war. The case studies in this work reveal the ways in which AI will change warfare and strategic competition through a deeper understanding of the relationship between information, organizational dynamics, and military power.
