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This Strategic Insights article explores how decision-based artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how military decisions are generated, exercised, and contested. It analyzes how AI systems, especially those embedded across command and control constructs like Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), act as constitutive elements in operational and strategic decision-making by filtering information, prioritizing options, and compressing analysis timelines. The piece highlights strategic and organizational implications, including altered authority structures, the need for robust AI governance and doctrine, and emerging vulnerabilities tied to data integrity and algorithmic influence. It concludes with policy recommendations to codify AI’s role in doctrine, align ethical accountability with command authority, and integrate AI considerations into military education and planning.

Document Type

Book

Topic(s)

Emerging Science and Technologies, Future Strategic Concepts, Defense Policy

Publication Date

2-9-2026

Keywords

decision-based artificial intelligence, AI in military decision-making, strategic reordering of military power, AI-enabled command and control, military AI governance, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), epistemic actors in warfare, AI strategic integration, military decision superiority

Decision-Based Artificial Intelligence and the Strategic Reordering of Military Power

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