Today’s huge HQs are slow-moving “rocket magnets” that can’t keep up in 21st century combat, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us in an exclusive interview. To survive and win, Lt. Gen. Mike Groen said, the military must replace cumbersome manual processes with AI.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 12, 2021 at 3:21 PM
“We lost the initiative early.
“We just couldn’t move fast enough. We were trying to coordinate the campaign through multiple chat rooms and email queries, while they just seemed to flow over us. Our sensor to shooter links could never move from detection to action fast enough to match their tempo. By the time we knew what was going on, the fight seemed to flow to another region or domain. And once we fell behind, we were constantly reacting, never able to make a decisive move.
“We started thinking about what they were going to do to us, instead of how we were going to bring the fight to them. How did they know we were here? How did they execute so fast? Why were we so slow?”