BLOOD AND CHROME: Pete Hegseth just announced the "Autonomous Warfare Command" during his “State of the Force” address and it's a brand spanking new (would be) four star org called AutoWarCom. Think scaling up drones, robotics, super intelligence, and related command and control systems across the whole of the United States Military. Yeah. Oh yeah. Hegseth describes it as a four star combatant command with service (as in Army, Navy, etc) like authorities that would allow it to design, buy, and field autonomous systems instead of waiting on the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps to procure them. Mind you, none of this actually exists until Congress approves it, and assuming it does (why wouldn't it?) the target date is October 1, 2027. “The pace of war is changing faster than the process to support it,” Hegseth said. Cheap computing and commercial manufacturing have made cheap, effective and high precision strike widely available, with Ukraine being the clearest example. Started with tanks, artillery, real last century warfare. Now it's a drone war. As in we're talking something like an estimated 70 percent of Russian casualties can be directly attributed to drones. But this isn't about drones so much as it is about nimble warfare. Think information and industrial systems that can adapt just as fast as the technology can be created as the Super Intelligence singularity looms larger on the horizon. In any event, until the command exists, the Pentagon will be running an interim effort called Project Agincourt (I'm sure you recognize the name and the connection) led by Defense Innovation Unit director Owen West and Navy SEAL Senior Chief Max Strasiser. Interestingly Strasiser was the first enlisted SEAL to graduate from Navy Test Pilot School (Something something Starship Troopers, something something Sky Marshal). While West will be responsible for strategic risk, resources, and scale Strasiser will handle operational problem solving and how the systems are actually used in combat. Agincourt is meant to be a kind of prototype for what Hegseth called “warfighting acquisition”, a dedicated element that pairs operators with engineers and entrepreneurs in short cycles, and pushing decisions and money closer to frontline units and combatant commands. This also means the creation of new military occupational specialties so troops who operate autonomous systems have an actual career path, rather than the job being more of a side duty. Additionally, and not coincidentally, on the exact same day, Hegseth announced Project Meridian, a study group on future warfare domains and heavily involves Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich as well as US military's own Emil Michael. That said, AutoWarCom is still a plan rather than anything concrete. Structure, budget, and how it will sit beside the services’ own autonomy offices are unsettled, and Congress has to put that authority in writing, but the going bet is that a dedicated command can turn a scatter of drone programs into mass, fielded capability before the next war writes the doctrine for them.

For those wondering why they would do this... they did the same thing in England. It's so that you CAN'T deport them because your healthcare services are irredeemably dependent upon them.

Right now my biggest White pill is Elon Musk, but not for reasons you might think. In the past month Elon hasn't mentioned the Midterms once and only referenced them twice. That's... peculiar. Everyone reading this knows the Left needs to destroy Elon Musk. Not "should" or "wants to", they *must* destroy Elon, they have to establish utter dominance over him to such an extent and so publicly that his humiliation serves as warning to the rest of us. If even the world's wealthiest man can't stand against us, what hope do you have? They did it in China to Jack Ma, drove him right out of the country. Point being, they have to destroy Elon. And Elon knows this. Elon is well aware that the Left will stop at absolutely nothing to ruin everything he's built. They'll come after his companies, the people on X, the people who work for X, they'll go after his mother, his children's mothers. They'll go after his kids and he knows that too. He knows how important the Midterms are. ...and nary a peep. Why not? Well, there's really only two reasons why Elon would keep his mouth shut and all of them revolves around the statement "He knows something we do not." Now, if Elon knew the Republicans were going to get absolutely trounced in the midterms and he would thus be destroyed he might be taking the submissive position. Don't rock the boat before the transition of power to better appease the new masters. or... He knows the Republicans are going to win, some way, somehow. Whether it looks dirty as hell or not, they win. What we can PROBABLY ascertain however, is that Elon doesn't have much in the way of doubt. Why? Because if he felt there was a chance to beat the Left in a contest that was actually in play he would be raising hell explicitly to do just that. In other words... if there was a question of who might win he'd be hammering his thumb on the scale right about now and in coming weeks to move that dial in favor of his preferred team. But he hasn't been. So either he convinced we're done, or he's convinced we're going to win. Not much room in between. But there's another tell that shifts this directly into White pill territory. Elon isn't submissive, he has absolutely enormous resources, and he would mobilize all of them to save his family, what he's built, and America. Have you seen any evidence of a massive mobilization of talent in defense of the Republic? "He's spent millions!" Because if he didn't it'd be weird. He's dropped 90 million on Republican races. No small chunk of change.. but hardly "It's do or die" from Elon. He would be utilizing every single resource has has available. Including X. And he hasn't. Why not? What's Left? Well, just about the only feasible answer remaining is that Elon is all but convinced the Right is going to find some way to stay in power, because that's the only thing that shields him and everything he loves. Or this might all just be cope. We'll see.