Choice is field equipment XOR (exclusive OR) Valley of Death by default for decades; R&D , cancel, don’t worry NG IOU* for more than a generation. People are vested in this model - 771,000 DOD Civilians every one named Karen. That’s the system and author you have no power to “reinvent” that system, but SecWar has a window- that’s just opened and will close- to bypass that System. We need equipment, we need munitions (which were also allowed to wither) we don’t need advice on reinvention of revolution in military affairs by Lean Six Sigma etc. SecWar made drones expendable ala munitions for a reason, so that we could get lots of them like Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan… although we have *probably* caught up to the Karen Rebels UAS - which did surpass us for a time.
We need; Russian drone losses: ~320,000.
* 10× that scale: ~3.2 million.
* Strategic reserve plus training plus operational wastage: perhaps 5 million or more.
And most of the drones should go boom, or drop boom.
Imagine a future where all our weapons and systems are run by autonomous AIs. Further imagine that at some point the AI decides not to war any longer. This is the premise of how AIs took over from humans in Neal Asher's Polity series of SF novels. it all started with what was termed a "quiet war".
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Quiet War: This is often how the AI takeover is described, and even using ‘war’ seems overly dramatic. It was more a slow usurpation of human political and military power, while humans were busy using that power against each other. It wasn’t even very stealthy. Analogies have been drawn with someone moving a gun out of the reach of a lunatic while that person is ranting and bellowing at someone else. And so it was. AIs, long used in the many corporate, national and religious conflicts, took over all communication networks and the computer control of weapons systems. Most importantly, they already controlled the enclosed human environments scattered throughout the solar system. Also establishing themselves as corporate entities, they soon accrued vast wealth with which to employ human mercenary armies. National leaders in the solar system, ordering this launch or that attack, found their orders either just did not arrive, or caused nil response. Those same people ordering the destruction of the AIs, found themselves weaponless, in environments utterly out of their control, and up against superior forces and, on the whole, public opinion. It had not taken the general population, for whom it was a long-established tradition to look upon their human leaders with contempt, very long to realise that the AIs were better at running everything. And it is very difficult to motivate people to revolution, when they are extremely comfortable and well off.
Very thoughtfully written - thank you for the perspective
Choice is field equipment XOR (exclusive OR) Valley of Death by default for decades; R&D , cancel, don’t worry NG IOU* for more than a generation. People are vested in this model - 771,000 DOD Civilians every one named Karen. That’s the system and author you have no power to “reinvent” that system, but SecWar has a window- that’s just opened and will close- to bypass that System. We need equipment, we need munitions (which were also allowed to wither) we don’t need advice on reinvention of revolution in military affairs by Lean Six Sigma etc. SecWar made drones expendable ala munitions for a reason, so that we could get lots of them like Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan… although we have *probably* caught up to the Karen Rebels UAS - which did surpass us for a time.
We need; Russian drone losses: ~320,000.
* 10× that scale: ~3.2 million.
* Strategic reserve plus training plus operational wastage: perhaps 5 million or more.
And most of the drones should go boom, or drop boom.
Thanks for the advice, got any drones ready?
If not- get out of the way.
*NG IOUs trust us - the Marines turned in their tanks and cannon tubes for rockets/ drones IOUs… which haven’t materialized. That’s the system. <<
Imagine a future where all our weapons and systems are run by autonomous AIs. Further imagine that at some point the AI decides not to war any longer. This is the premise of how AIs took over from humans in Neal Asher's Polity series of SF novels. it all started with what was termed a "quiet war".
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Quiet War: This is often how the AI takeover is described, and even using ‘war’ seems overly dramatic. It was more a slow usurpation of human political and military power, while humans were busy using that power against each other. It wasn’t even very stealthy. Analogies have been drawn with someone moving a gun out of the reach of a lunatic while that person is ranting and bellowing at someone else. And so it was. AIs, long used in the many corporate, national and religious conflicts, took over all communication networks and the computer control of weapons systems. Most importantly, they already controlled the enclosed human environments scattered throughout the solar system. Also establishing themselves as corporate entities, they soon accrued vast wealth with which to employ human mercenary armies. National leaders in the solar system, ordering this launch or that attack, found their orders either just did not arrive, or caused nil response. Those same people ordering the destruction of the AIs, found themselves weaponless, in environments utterly out of their control, and up against superior forces and, on the whole, public opinion. It had not taken the general population, for whom it was a long-established tradition to look upon their human leaders with contempt, very long to realise that the AIs were better at running everything. And it is very difficult to motivate people to revolution, when they are extremely comfortable and well off.
https://www.nealasher.co.uk/polity-encyclopaedia/