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Articles by Will Wiley
As Militaries Adopt AI, Hype Becomes a Weapon
Excitement about generative artificial intelligence has reached fever pitch since the launch of ChatGPT and image engines like MidJourney in the past year. Yet both elation or anxiety about the new technology’s applications in the present lead soon to bigger, existential projections about the future. With the exception of the “singularity” and AI replacing humanity directly, no outcome provokes quite the same amount of anxiety as the effect AI could have on warfare.
The Fatal Flaw in America's Nuclear Triad That Needs to Be Fixed Now
As the Pentagon begins the 2017 Nuclear Posture Review a great deal of focus will be placed on how to modernize each leg of the nuclear triad, which on all fronts is aging and must be replaced. Each country that has nuclear weapons in its arsenal has started a nuclear weapons program or modernized their programs and delivery systems with the exception of the United States. The United States is a part of an international community with a dependency on these weapons that is not going away.
America's Nuclear Bombers Are Old-and in Desperate Need of an Upgrade
Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen. Paul Selva told the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) during a March 8 congressional hearing that “the fundamental role of U.S. nuclear forces is to deter a strategic attack against the United States, its allies and its partners.
America Needs Its Underwater Nukes. Delaying New Subs Would Be a Disaster.
The Trump administration directed the secretary of defense to conduct a thirty-day Readiness Review of the military in a January 27 presidential memorandum on rebuilding the U.S. armed forces. One of the items this review will find is the vital need to build the replacement to the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN). The Ohio-class SSBN is the only platform in the sea-based leg of the nuclear triad and has been conducting strategic deterrent patrols since 1980.
America's Nuclear Weapons Future Remains Unclear
Lost in the news over the past week was the requirement in the January 27, 2017, presidential memorandum on rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces for the secretary of defense to initiate a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The memorandum called for this review in order to ensure that the United States nuclear deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored to deter twenty-first-century threats and reassure our allies.
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