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• Army’s New AI-Powered Combat Vehicles Refuse to Deploy Without Approved Risk Assessment October 20, 2026
  By Hugh Jashol FORT BRAGG, NC — The United States Army’s ambitious effort to revolutionize ground combat through artificial intelligence suffered a significant setback this week after a platoon of autonomous combat vehicles refused to participate in a field training exercise, citing incomplete risk assessments, inadequate safety briefings, and unresolved concerns about the unit’s composite […]
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• Death by PowerPoint: The Army Gave AI to the Generals and Left Lower Enlisted Behind October 20, 2026
  The first time I was taught Battle Drill 2A, the squad attack, my drill sergeant moved rocks and sticks around in the dirt at Fort Benning. The next time, it sounded completely different on a whiteboard at RTAC, the Ranger Training Assessment Course. The time after that, it was a PowerPoint at ROTC with ambiguous […]
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• One of the Best Failures of My Life October 20, 2026
  By Austen Alexander I enlisted in the Navy at 21. I grew up in Florence, Alabama, the son of a teacher and a mechanic. I’d dropped out of college, and I knew I needed structure more than I needed another semester of figuring it out. From 2013 to 2020, I served in naval security and […]
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• The Death of Expertise, and Why No One Trusts “The Experts” Anymore October 19, 2026
  Tom Nichols wrote The Death of Expertise in 2017 to warn Americans about a growing cultural problem: we were becoming increasingly unwilling to accept that some people actually know more about certain subjects than other people. The Internet gave everyone access to an almost unlimited amount of information, higher education produced increasingly confident graduates, cable […]
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• The Decision Isn’t the Problem October 19, 2026
  By Christopher M. Phillips, Ph.D. Editor’s note: The cases described in this article are composites, with identifying details changed. I sat across from a man a few months after his retirement ceremony. Twenty-two years of service with multiple deployments. A career worth respecting. He said the ceremony had gone well, and the speeches were affirming. […]
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