DARC is a new kind of defense think tank
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Senior fellows had the opportunity to brief the President yesterday - a really productive meeting
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cry havoc, and let slip the autists of war
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The DARC Summer Fellows are officially on the ground in Ukraine
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SpaceX should be seen as a vindication for the underlying thesis of defensetech, proof that a narrow but real path still exists for the upstart to grow, defeat, and eventually supplant the incumbent primes
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One of the most important aspects of the integration of the defense into the tech sector and commercial more generally is the entwinement of economic power with the nation's security. These ties shape corporate elite weltanschauung, and restrain its professional managerial class.
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Scoop: A Google director resigned over the company's AI deal with the Pentagon for classified work. "I am quite sad that it had to come to this, and desperately hope Google management re-discovers its moral compass," he wrote in a letter circulated internally
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For all of the genuinely novel national security issues presented by what Anthropic is building, one of the most striking things is how intensely conventional Dario's kitchen cabinet on these issues remain
Jun 10
Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: darioamodei.com/post/policy-…
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Autonomy has mostly made headlines as a transformational force in making war, but these systems will increasingly achieve milestones across the many domains of activity that make up an armed conflict
These will stack, resulting in something that resembles War Factorio over time
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Two US aviators went down near the Strait of Hormuz. DoW used an autonomous @Saronic Corsair to find and bring them home - the 1st drone rescue at sea in military history.
This is why we build: to keep our troops safe. This was science fiction. American builders made it real 🇺🇸.
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Promising. The rise of the right in LatAm is perhaps the greatest guarantor to the revival of Monroeism
But as Milei shows, the moment is easily lost. US policy should use the window to knit aligned regimes together and establish a new hemispheric system which is structurally rw
Jun 10
JUST IN: Keiko Fujimori has a 95% chance to win the Peru Presidential election
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Our kingdom for a Redwall reboot that incorporates the mechanics of modern warfare
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Clear and Present Danger (1989): POTUS escalates war on the cartels with airstrikes / SOF
Debt of Honor (1994): hijacked airliners used for the purposes of terrorist attack
Executive Orders (1996): mysterious pandemic, travel bans and lockdown
You are entering the Clancy Era.
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Enormous opportunity lurking in NSPM-11: the handwringing era of autonomous weapons is over, and @SecWar should issue a fresh and completely revised Directive 3000.09 that actively prioritizes the jump to full autonomy in American arms
Today, @POTUS signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on AI in the national security enterprise. The men and women who defend our nation deserve the best, most secure, and most reliable AI in the world, and our citizens deserve to know it is handled responsibly with the care and seriousness they expect.
The NSPM accelerates AI adoption from multiple vendors to prevent single points of failure, updates @DeptofWar’s guidance on autonomy in weapons systems to keep pace with the frontier, and ensures no entity can disable or degrade an AI system our warfighters depend on without prior approval.
Under @POTUS’s leadership, we are putting our AI dominance to work to defend the American people.
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It's Ebat's World you're just living in it
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Every day we inch closer and closer to Ebat's World, where grey mercenary combat collides with sportsbetting and streaming entertainment.
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How many 1-star 2-star generals have logged more than five hundred hours of gameplay here
🎮🚀🇺🇸 ANNOUNCING A NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ON VIDEO GAMES AND WARFARE
DARC is seeking papers addressing the intersection of video games and real-world conflict. Honoraria of $2,000 available for pieces of 2,000 - 4,000 words.
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Video games are among the dominant cultural and cognitive substrates for the next generation of military and civilian leaders.
These leaders will have spent their formative years mastering real-time strategy games, squad-based shooters, and competitive multiplayer environments. These shared formative experiences are now diffusing through the world’s military institutions. Their narratives, reward structures, and tactical logics will inevitably shape how tomorrow’s warfighters perceive conflict, solve problems, and make decisions under pressure.
DARC believes that understanding these influences is essential to understanding how future conflicts may unfold.
In addition, or perhaps as a consequence of this upbringing, DARC is struck by how emerging battlefield platforms, from hardware to software, increasingly resemble the interfaces and control schemas of video games. The proliferation of drones, autonomous munitions, cyber warfare, and warfighter wearables has created a battlefield that, in many respects, looks remarkably like popular video games, both in terms of gameplay, environments, and story elements.
If, to turn a phrase, “the medium is the meta,” then a deep understanding of how strategic dynamics played out in the world of e-sports and competitive videogaming may give us clues to the dominant strategies of future conflict. Increasingly, it seems we may now be looking towards fighting the real-world versions of conflicts simulated decades ago.
defenseanalyses.org/video-ga…
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A brave rebuke from @CSIS to the countless advocates pushing for more unskilled personnel and out of date capabilities in the cyber domain
A new report from @CSIS_Tech argues that an effective cyber service will need to include a team of skilled personnel and acquire cutting-edge capabilities that enable agile, dynamic, adaptive, and creative operations in the cyber domain.
Read: csis.org/analysis/csis-commi…
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