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Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force address ordered a new four-star command for drones and autonomy, a 20% cut to generals and admirals by January 2027, and a future-warfare review led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. The diagnosis is sound. The execution is the problem.

A Special Operations analyst asked a chatbot to read a Chinese ship’s manifest. It invented a nuclear cargo claim, a second AI pass formatted it as an official intelligence report, and US aircraft were in the air before anyone checked where it came from.