The Horizon Audiofiles - Ep 041 - Training Minds & Systems For Tomorrow's Conflicts

Technological advancements and evolving security policies
increasingly shape military conflicts through AI, autonomous
systems, and cyber capabilities. Future developments can be
analysed from both military-technological and tactical
perspectives, highlighting challenges in command structures,
information processing, and execution. The vignettes address the
aspects of capability, understanding, and will, i.e., the parts
of combat power. Countermeasures require cybersecurity,
intelligence validation, and leadership training in cognitive
resilience, as well as the proper usage of the decision-making
process. Success depends on integrating technology with adaptive
command structures and cognitive flexibility. Clausewitz’s
adaptability is vital in modern conflicts, while Jomini’s
structured approach remains relevant for technological
coordination. True success integrates both perspectives, ensuring
leadership, data integrity, and the flexibility to shape
complexity rather than merely react to it.


Prompt on Capability: „First scenario, area: capability.
Describe, from the perspective of a future battalion commander
(three mechanised infantry companies, one tank company, one
platoon of self-propelled anti-aircraft systems, one platoon for
indirect fire support), why he has just lost a battle against an
enemy and now stands before the smoking wreckage of his
battalion. Cite as reasons, for example, that the anti-aircraft
platoon was unable to fire because the chip supply chain for the
fire control computers had been infiltrated or sabotaged. These
chips reacted to a specific type of electronic emission in such a
way that the entire anti-aircraft software system was overloaded,
causing the components to burn out. The main battle tanks failed
to hit the opposing tanks because the AI-assisted target
acquisition software had been hacked. Upon detecting the contours
of enemy vehicles, it consistently produced missed shots due to
slight targeting deviations. Finally, describe how the infantry
fighting vehicles constantly displayed a message on the driver's
control panel indicating that the component “Burgmannring”
urgently needed to be replaced. This was the result of
satellite-based interference with the software, which had
injected the false alert. Feel free to invent additional
background information and elaborate creatively. Also, consider
selecting other units from the battalion and constructing similar
examples. Length: approximately 600 words, from the perspective
of the battalion commander.“ Altman, ChatGPT 4o.


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