I asked Chat GTP how AI could help in this story. A rather lengthy reply was offered, with some potential applications and their implications, but the conclusion was accurate:
AI can significantly augment the capabilities of Marines by providing real-time data analysis, enhancing situational awareness, supporting autonomous systems, improving training, aiding decision-making, and optimizing logistics. However, the effective integration of AI requires recognizing its limitations and ensuring that human judgment and experience remain at the forefront of decision-making processes. The story "Artificial Intelligence & the Fish" underscores the importance of this balance, illustrating that while AI is a powerful tool, the human element is essential for success in real-world scenarios.
Will be interesting to see if Marines will be able to creatively cause AI to go completely bonkers. And of course no high tech heavy breather wants to think about the unintended consequences. And too AI and insider threat may prove to be a cascading nightmare as a result of our hyped-over-reliance on technology.
In my current profession, some of our transportation software has limited Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) built in. We do use this functionality to make us more efficient and responsive to our customers needs, but there are limitations. I do think A.I. has utility in military operational systems, especially in the cyber domain. However, there are limitations to relying on AI. I’m sure, and I pray like heck that those pushing for inclusion of A.I. in warfighting, keep in mind AI’s vulnerability to cyber attacks and what that means vis-a-vis mission accomplishment, and the potential for algorithm biases which will give you wrong information causing totally different decisions made by those who aren’t on the ground, and lastly, the over dependence on technology could prove to be the undoing of mission accomplishment. As the CP article on “A.I. and the Fish” points out, it takes people on the ground, those actually engaged in the fight to make the timely decisions needed based on the reality they see, A.I. can never replace the human dynamic.
Ukrainian Drones. What Ukraine Destroying Russia's Su-57 Means For Drones In Warfare & The Balance Of Air Power
BY
AARON SPRAY
PUBLISHED 3 HOURS AGO
The balance of air power may be impacted as cheap drones, a fraction of 1% of the cost of a fighter jet, destroy 5th-gen fighter jets.
Shutterstock_1724917393 Photo: Fasttailwind l Shutterstock
SUMMARY
Ukrainian drones are reshaping warfare, damaging high-profile Russian aircraft.
Su-57 loss underscores the need to protect aircraft in hardened shelters.
Cheap drones provide some capabilities similar to fighter jets at a fraction of the cost.
Yesterday, the Ukrainian armed forces dropped a bombshell (no pun intended) - they had damaged (likely destroyed) a prized 5th-generation Su-57 fighter jet on the ground. The jet has been hit by the explosions of at least two drone strikes. The Russian Su-57 has become the latest high-profile fatality from Ukraine's burgeoning drone capabilities and is likely the first 5th-gen fighter to be destroyed in combat (not counting the F-117 as 5th-gen). Later that day, Ukraine suggested they may have hit a second Su-57 in the same strike but need more confirmation. So, what does this mean for the future of airpower?
About Marine M777….we need to reactivate and refill our ammo stockpiles to include the modernized extended range rounds. The production lines are hot time to push to REINVEST!
Samuel J. Cox was appointed to the Senior Executive Service on 29 December 2014 and since then has served as the 14th Director of Naval History and Curator for the Navy. As the Director of the Naval History and Heritage Command, he is responsible for the Navy’s official history programs, operational archives, Navy Department Library, and the Navy’s collection of historic artifacts, photographs, art, weapons, and display aircraft, and for the underwater archaeology program. He is also responsible for ten official U.S. Navy museums, including the historic submarine Nautilus, and for maintenance of the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship afloat. As the Federal Executive Agent for the U.S. Sunken Military Craft Act, he is also responsible for more than 3,000 U.S. Navy shipwrecks and more than 14,000 aircraft wrecks.
Cox graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was awarded the Trident Scholar Prize for independent research and the History Department Prize, with distinction in 1980. He subsequently earned a master’s degree and U.S. Army designation as a Military Historian from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1993.
Cox retired from active duty in November 2013 as a two-star rear admiral. His last tour was dual-hatted as the Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence and Director of the National Maritime Intelligence Integration Office, reporting to the Director of National Intelligence. His tour prior to that was Director of Intelligence (J2,) for U.S. Cyber Command. Concurrent with both these tours, as the senior intelligence officer in the Navy, he served as the Naval Intelligence Community Leader.
Following commissioning in 1980, Cox served as a squadron intelligence officer in Airborne Early Warning Squadron ONE TWO ONE (VAW-121,) deploying twice to the Mediterranean embarked on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) for Lebanon and Libya crisis operations. He then served concurrently as acting Carrier Air Wing SEVEN (CVW-7) intelligence officer for northern European operations. In 1984, he was assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot (CNO-IP,) as a watch officer and CNO briefer. He then served as Deputy Director for International Programs and Assistant Operations Officer at Naval Intelligence Command, including serving as an action officer for the acquisition of a foreign threat anti-ship missile system. In 1990, he reported to the U.S. Seventh Fleet as Assistant Intelligence Officer, embarked on USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), and took part in deployment to the Persian Gulf for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and in operations in the Western Pacific during Operation Fiery Vigil, the Mount Pinatubo eruption.
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Source the Modern War Institute at West Point, “THE ERA OF THE DRONE SWARM IS COMING, AND WE NEED TO BE READY FOR IT
Zachary Kallenborn | 10.25.18
The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming, and We Need to Be Ready for It
Drone swarm technology—the ability of drones to autonomously make decisions based on shared information—has the potential to revolutionize the dynamics of conflict. And we’re inching ever closer to seeing this potential unleashed. In fact, swarms will have significant applications to almost every area of national and homeland security. Swarms of drones could search the oceans for adversary submarines. Drones could disperse over large areas to identify and eliminate hostile surface-to-air missiles and other air defenses. Drone swarms could potentially even serve as novel missile defenses, blocking incoming hypersonic missiles. On the homeland security front, security swarms equipped with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) detectors, facial recognition, anti-drone weapons, and other capabilities offer defenses against a range of threats.
But while drones swarms represent a major technological advancement, unlocking their full potential will require developing capabilities centered around four key areas: swarm size, customization, diversity, and hardening.
Israel is a tiny Sovereign State surrounded by millions of Islamic Fascist that want to annihilate them. They have fought continuous wars for the last 75 years. They are survivors yet on October 7, 2023 they were surprised and for the last 9 months have been fighting a war of national survival using all of the means available to them. Infantry, Tanks, Manned Aircraft, UAV,in all domains, lots of Artillery, Special Operations Forces, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Sigint, Cyber, EW, multilayered air defense, etc. etc. and when appropriate Artificial Intelligence. All of these “means” serve the human decision makers in making Strategic. Operational, and Tactical decisions. When we examine Our Republic’s experiences in WWII, we discover that America used all of the tools of war available to it and invented thousands of new weapons. Artificial Intelligence is another means just like the jet engine or nuclear weapons. Report: IDF using facial recognition tools to identify, detain suspects in Gaza
AI tech first deployed to find Israeli hostages is increasingly being used on Palestinians, reports New York Times, with some claiming error-prone tools lead to mistaken arrests
By TOI STAFF
27 March 2024, 4:52 pm
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File - IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with female surveillance soldiers at an army base on the Gaza border, March 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
File - IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with female surveillance soldiers at an army base on the Gaza border, March 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel has arrested hundreds of Palestinian suspects in the Gaza Strip using an experimental, artificial intelligence-powered surveillance apparatus, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed “Israeli intelligence officers, military officials and soldiers
I asked Chat GTP how AI could help in this story. A rather lengthy reply was offered, with some potential applications and their implications, but the conclusion was accurate:
AI can significantly augment the capabilities of Marines by providing real-time data analysis, enhancing situational awareness, supporting autonomous systems, improving training, aiding decision-making, and optimizing logistics. However, the effective integration of AI requires recognizing its limitations and ensuring that human judgment and experience remain at the forefront of decision-making processes. The story "Artificial Intelligence & the Fish" underscores the importance of this balance, illustrating that while AI is a powerful tool, the human element is essential for success in real-world scenarios.
Will be interesting to see if Marines will be able to creatively cause AI to go completely bonkers. And of course no high tech heavy breather wants to think about the unintended consequences. And too AI and insider threat may prove to be a cascading nightmare as a result of our hyped-over-reliance on technology.
In my current profession, some of our transportation software has limited Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) built in. We do use this functionality to make us more efficient and responsive to our customers needs, but there are limitations. I do think A.I. has utility in military operational systems, especially in the cyber domain. However, there are limitations to relying on AI. I’m sure, and I pray like heck that those pushing for inclusion of A.I. in warfighting, keep in mind AI’s vulnerability to cyber attacks and what that means vis-a-vis mission accomplishment, and the potential for algorithm biases which will give you wrong information causing totally different decisions made by those who aren’t on the ground, and lastly, the over dependence on technology could prove to be the undoing of mission accomplishment. As the CP article on “A.I. and the Fish” points out, it takes people on the ground, those actually engaged in the fight to make the timely decisions needed based on the reality they see, A.I. can never replace the human dynamic.
https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2024/06/pentagons-go-data-analytics-platform-under-construction/397255/
The commentary in this piece, from my lens, is germane to the discussion on A.I.
Ukrainian Drones. What Ukraine Destroying Russia's Su-57 Means For Drones In Warfare & The Balance Of Air Power
BY
AARON SPRAY
PUBLISHED 3 HOURS AGO
The balance of air power may be impacted as cheap drones, a fraction of 1% of the cost of a fighter jet, destroy 5th-gen fighter jets.
Shutterstock_1724917393 Photo: Fasttailwind l Shutterstock
SUMMARY
Ukrainian drones are reshaping warfare, damaging high-profile Russian aircraft.
Su-57 loss underscores the need to protect aircraft in hardened shelters.
Cheap drones provide some capabilities similar to fighter jets at a fraction of the cost.
Yesterday, the Ukrainian armed forces dropped a bombshell (no pun intended) - they had damaged (likely destroyed) a prized 5th-generation Su-57 fighter jet on the ground. The jet has been hit by the explosions of at least two drone strikes. The Russian Su-57 has become the latest high-profile fatality from Ukraine's burgeoning drone capabilities and is likely the first 5th-gen fighter to be destroyed in combat (not counting the F-117 as 5th-gen). Later that day, Ukraine suggested they may have hit a second Su-57 in the same strike but need more confirmation. So, what does this mean for the future of airpower?
About Marine M777….we need to reactivate and refill our ammo stockpiles to include the modernized extended range rounds. The production lines are hot time to push to REINVEST!
Another resource..NHHC…..led bySamuel J. Cox
Senior Executive Service
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Director,
Naval History and Heritage Command
Curator of the Navy
Samuel Cox, Director NHHC
Samuel J. Cox was appointed to the Senior Executive Service on 29 December 2014 and since then has served as the 14th Director of Naval History and Curator for the Navy. As the Director of the Naval History and Heritage Command, he is responsible for the Navy’s official history programs, operational archives, Navy Department Library, and the Navy’s collection of historic artifacts, photographs, art, weapons, and display aircraft, and for the underwater archaeology program. He is also responsible for ten official U.S. Navy museums, including the historic submarine Nautilus, and for maintenance of the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship afloat. As the Federal Executive Agent for the U.S. Sunken Military Craft Act, he is also responsible for more than 3,000 U.S. Navy shipwrecks and more than 14,000 aircraft wrecks.
Cox graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was awarded the Trident Scholar Prize for independent research and the History Department Prize, with distinction in 1980. He subsequently earned a master’s degree and U.S. Army designation as a Military Historian from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1993.
Cox retired from active duty in November 2013 as a two-star rear admiral. His last tour was dual-hatted as the Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence and Director of the National Maritime Intelligence Integration Office, reporting to the Director of National Intelligence. His tour prior to that was Director of Intelligence (J2,) for U.S. Cyber Command. Concurrent with both these tours, as the senior intelligence officer in the Navy, he served as the Naval Intelligence Community Leader.
Following commissioning in 1980, Cox served as a squadron intelligence officer in Airborne Early Warning Squadron ONE TWO ONE (VAW-121,) deploying twice to the Mediterranean embarked on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) for Lebanon and Libya crisis operations. He then served concurrently as acting Carrier Air Wing SEVEN (CVW-7) intelligence officer for northern European operations. In 1984, he was assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot (CNO-IP,) as a watch officer and CNO briefer. He then served as Deputy Director for International Programs and Assistant Operations Officer at Naval Intelligence Command, including serving as an action officer for the acquisition of a foreign threat anti-ship missile system. In 1990, he reported to the U.S. Seventh Fleet as Assistant Intelligence Officer, embarked on USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), and took part in deployment to the Persian Gulf for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and in operations in the Western Pacific during Operation Fiery Vigil, the Mount Pinatubo eruption.
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Source the Modern War Institute at West Point, “THE ERA OF THE DRONE SWARM IS COMING, AND WE NEED TO BE READY FOR IT
Zachary Kallenborn | 10.25.18
The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming, and We Need to Be Ready for It
Drone swarm technology—the ability of drones to autonomously make decisions based on shared information—has the potential to revolutionize the dynamics of conflict. And we’re inching ever closer to seeing this potential unleashed. In fact, swarms will have significant applications to almost every area of national and homeland security. Swarms of drones could search the oceans for adversary submarines. Drones could disperse over large areas to identify and eliminate hostile surface-to-air missiles and other air defenses. Drone swarms could potentially even serve as novel missile defenses, blocking incoming hypersonic missiles. On the homeland security front, security swarms equipped with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) detectors, facial recognition, anti-drone weapons, and other capabilities offer defenses against a range of threats.
But while drones swarms represent a major technological advancement, unlocking their full potential will require developing capabilities centered around four key areas: swarm size, customization, diversity, and hardening.
Israel is a tiny Sovereign State surrounded by millions of Islamic Fascist that want to annihilate them. They have fought continuous wars for the last 75 years. They are survivors yet on October 7, 2023 they were surprised and for the last 9 months have been fighting a war of national survival using all of the means available to them. Infantry, Tanks, Manned Aircraft, UAV,in all domains, lots of Artillery, Special Operations Forces, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Sigint, Cyber, EW, multilayered air defense, etc. etc. and when appropriate Artificial Intelligence. All of these “means” serve the human decision makers in making Strategic. Operational, and Tactical decisions. When we examine Our Republic’s experiences in WWII, we discover that America used all of the tools of war available to it and invented thousands of new weapons. Artificial Intelligence is another means just like the jet engine or nuclear weapons. Report: IDF using facial recognition tools to identify, detain suspects in Gaza
AI tech first deployed to find Israeli hostages is increasingly being used on Palestinians, reports New York Times, with some claiming error-prone tools lead to mistaken arrests
By TOI STAFF
27 March 2024, 4:52 pm
7
File - IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with female surveillance soldiers at an army base on the Gaza border, March 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
File - IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with female surveillance soldiers at an army base on the Gaza border, March 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel has arrested hundreds of Palestinian suspects in the Gaza Strip using an experimental, artificial intelligence-powered surveillance apparatus, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed “Israeli intelligence officers, military officials and soldiers