# The Machine Staff

- Source: War on the Rocks
- Published: 2026-10-27T08:00:35+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-machine-staff/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/the-machine-staff-174944/

At Nellis Air Force Base last year, an AI system was tasked with building courses of action, a complex operational problem that military planners have spent generations learning to perform. The AI system took less than a minute to complete its task with solutions rated at 97 percent viable and tactically valid (essentially, whether the proposed plan could work given operational constraints such as

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