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The US military leveraged Artificial Intelligence to pick targets in Iraq and in Syria this year
This specific program has been in place since 2017 via Project Maven. Companies developed a program that leveraged Artificial Intelligence to identify targets based on inputs from information gathering sources. This program was used in airstrikes that targeted over 85 locations across Syria and Iraq. The surprise attack conducted by Hamas against Israel, on October […]
SECDEF, “Sorry.”
Lloyd Austin Austin apologizes for secret hospital stay: ‘I did not handle this right’ BY BRAD DRESS Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin apologized Thursday for his secretive hospitalization in early January, admitting he “did not handle this right” amid questions about his failure to notify administration officials of the hospital stay. Austin appeared in the Pentagon […]
DOJ: Diverse Army Officer Corps a National Security Imperative
Biden DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow race-based admissions at West Point By Kaelan Deese The Biden administration on Tuesday responded to a request by a student group seeking to block race-based admissions practices at the U.S. Military Academy, telling the Supreme Court not to block affirmative action policies at the school. U.S. Solicitor General […]
How long does it take to ramp up?
I have long been a proponent of the argument that you can argue technology, quality of weapons, morale etc. till the cows come home. The things that win wars are production and logistics. Production, because it is the nature of war to break stuff (and people.) Logistics because all that material has to get to […]
NPRC Records Request Status
Pandemic-Related Backlog of 600,000 Veterans Records Requests Finally Cleared Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel A backlog of hundreds of thousands of requests for veterans records from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis that was caused by limiting in-person work during the COVID-19 pandemic has finally been cleared, the National Archives announced this week. […]
Rand, Academia Discover Military Has Recruiting Problems
Still Not Picking Up The Military Recruiting Outlook Is Grim Indeed. Loss of Public Confidence, Political Attacks and the Economy Are All Taking a Toll. By Richard Sisk Recruiting patterns in the military have increasingly come to reflect the nation’s red state-blue state political divide, with recruiting strong in the South and Midwest but lagging […]
Troop Retention Issues Addressed
These Army jobs have the highest turnover By Hope Hodge Seck When it comes to military job retention rates, not all specialties are created equal. A Marine in an administrative or logistics role, for example, may see a lot less turnover in their specialty than a rifleman or aircraft maintainer. New data from all the […]
Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard
Force Alignment Initiative? Hampton Roads braces for effects of Coast Guard’s temporary deactivation of units amid staffing shortages By CAITLYN BURCHETT Coast Guard units will be temporarily deactivated in a consolidation this year as the service grapples with one of the largest workforce shortages in its history. What this means for Hampton Roads — home […]
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