Foreign Policy

Embracing AI: How thinking weapons will simplify — and vastly complicate — future warfare

By Jamie McIntyre
Published November 15, 2019 4:00am ET
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Embracing AI: How thinking weapons will simplify — and vastly complicate — future warfare
A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara. | U.S. Army photo by Spc. Zayid Ballesteros

For the Pentagon, it was an ominous glimpse into the future.

The date was July 11, 2014, and Ukrainian forces assembled about five miles from the Russian border in southeastern Ukraine were preparing for a final push to the border.

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