What Is "Military Artificial Intelligence"?

Changing geopolitical strategy and rapid technological progress are also conspiring to render the term military increasingly incoherent. The United States--the one power to emerge unscathed from World War II and ascendant from the Cold War, and the one power that invests the greatest amount of resources in its battle-hardened military--possesses such overwhelming conventional military superiority over anyone else that potential adversaries instead embrace asymmetric warfare. Thus, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, wrote in a seminal article in 2014 that "the very'rules of war' have changed. The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has ... in many cases ... exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness." He also spoke of the need for "the broad use of political, economic, informational, humanitarian, and other nonmilitary measures," with conventional force "resorted to ... primarily for the achievement of final success in the conflict."