Modern conflict breaks the assumptions that power commercial AI. In a denied enviroment, you cannot rely on the cloud. In a high stakes engagement, you cannot rely on a guess.
The Audit Gap: You cannot subpoena a neural network. If you can’t explain why an autonomous system acted, you cannot deploy it under DoD Directive 3000.09
The Hallucination Risk: Convential LLMs collapse uncertainty into confidence. When they don’t know the answer, they make it up.
The Connectivity Trap: Cloud dependence kills autonomy at the contested edge.
