Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data.
Hegseth’s announcement was full of bold pronouncements about the future of killing people. These kinds of pronouncements are typical of the second Trump administration which has said it believes the rush to “win” AI is an existential threat on par with the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II.
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I feel like we’re trying to argue two different things.
You’re arguing that the Nazi generals didn’t develop a brand new type of warfare and they weren’t tactical geniuses, which is a fair assessment.
I’m arguing that they may not have been geniuses, but they refined a single strategy that worked well on the European continent but fell apart when dealing with the USSR and extended operations in Africa. The Nazis also had a series of strategic blunders in attacking the UK as the lead Nazi military organization had no experience in strategic planning and it showed.
I feel like a lot of historical analysis gets pushed into extremes of all good and all bad decisions when there is a mix of decisions.