Artificial Intelligence Meets Bureaucratic Politics - War on the Rocks

As the Joint Chiefs of Staff gathered in Key West, Florida for a private meeting in March 1948, the first U.S. secretary of defense, James Forrestal, posed a simple question: "Who will do what with what?" The Air Force and Navy tussled over strategic nuclear bombers, while the Army and Marine Corps bickered over limitations to their respective end strengths. The resulting Key West agreement defined the primary functions of the services for the Cold War, but it didn't end the debate -- far from it. Interservice rivalries flared over atomic weapons and the "missile gap." Turf battles wasted critical time and money and introduced new dangers in command and control.