[HN Gopher] In America's Next War, Machines Will Do the Thinking ___________________________________________________________________ In America's Next War, Machines Will Do the Thinking Author : jonbaer Score : 8 points Date : 2021-10-02 22:28 UTC (31 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.bloombergquint.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloombergquint.com) | mercy_dude wrote: | I am not so sure about that. If Afghanistan and corona response | have shown anything, a complete and total failure of American | intelligence and military apparatus isn't really far fetched | anymore. | themihai wrote: | Will the machines work against Talibans as well?The best U.S tech | couldn't deter some medieval-like army. You can't talk about a | super army/next level army and forget Afghanistan... | dogma1138 wrote: | When the US invaded Afghanistan in the Taliban was defeated | within about 6 weeks. US deterrence very much remained in place | until it began to withdraw. | | Winning against a force like the Taliban requires you to be | able to operate with much looser ROEs than the US as well as | operate against their enabled in the region and outside of it | which the US was unable and or unwilling to do. | | The Taliban was formed in Pakistan and it drew many of its | fighters from there it was true in the late 80's and it's true | today. | | Winning a war and sustaining occupation are also completely | different things, and most importantly this is about a peer or | near peer enemy. | | An occupation that is actually being opposed can only be won by | extermination or expulsion whilst wars are won by making it too | costly to continue fighting and allowing for or forcing a | surrender. | crooked-v wrote: | The results of the US withdrawal make it pretty obvious that | the Taliban as an organization were in hiding rather than | defeated, and probably had backchannel communications going | with local leaders the entire time the US was there, given | that at least some of the rapid takeover of the country again | seems to have come from pre-negotiated surrender agreements. | atarikraken wrote: | "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." | crooked-v wrote: | > Autonomy -- enabled by artificial intelligence, edge computing | and other technologies -- allows you to operate at scales and | speeds that you simply cannot do under the traditional model of | big, expensive, heavily manned systems that, no matter how much | money you throw at them, will only be able to do a limited number | of things. | | I can't wait to see the headlines in 2050 about a badly-trained | neural network leading to US warbots gunning down anyone carrying | a banana. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-02 23:00 UTC)