“Beta AI could do the jobs of every one of our generals today, and not a soul would notice.” From Karen Kwiakowski at lewrockwell.com:
Vacuous Pete read the US DoD FY 26 posture statement last week, explaining how the feds will spend the new trillion dollar US defense budget. The SecDef seems unaware of the idiocy, and the irony, of what he presented to Congress.
We may quibble on whether it was idiot-speak, mendacity, or simple ignorance. I’m agreeable that in Pete’s case, it could be all three.
First we have the sheer inability to identify the problem. Pete says, “The $961.6 billion budget put forward by the President reverses four years of mismanagement and underinvestment.” I’m not sure Pete has looked at Pentagon budget trends since WWII, but that budget has a long established pattern. Robert Higgs’ “ratchet effect” is clearly shown in this chart:
As Charles Hugh Smith explains, ratchet-systems produce bloat that is easy to expand and hard to reduce. “Four years of mismanagement” tells us that the DoD has no idea what is happening, what to do, and will proceed accordingly. Smith writes that over time, only the “delusionally incompetent” remain inside these systems “…[leading] to the substitution of PR and artifice for actually reducing the organization to a sustainable level, for what’s required is not just a revised spreadsheet but an entirely new culture and value system.”
AI has electrolytes and craves Brawndo.
Katy Perry/Stacy Abrams 2028.
Historic.
We should have various Green Zones set up by then as part of the glorious world conquering tour.
We could utilize the famous William F. Buckley quote and find more capable generals in the first 500 names of the phone book?
Honk, honk.