Jerae Perez
The pace of modernization is accelerating faster than doctrine, training cycles, and human adaptation can keep up. This gap is widening at the exact moment when the Army is pushing toward a future of distributed, AI-enabled formations.
Autonomous systems are advancing quickly. AI-enabled tools accelerate sensor fusion, compress timelines, and extend the reach of tactical formations. Project Convergence, Indo-Pacific exercises, and recent modernization experiments show a battlefield that is more saturated with data, more contested in the electromagnetic spectrum, and increasingly dependent on effective human-machine teaming.
Yet technology continues to outpace the Army’s ability to prepare the humans responsible for interpreting and acting within these systems. Contemporary work on cognitive warfare argues that the modern battlefield extends into the human mind, where contests over identity and resolve begin long before physical first contact. That idea becomes even more consequential as soldiers enter environments shaped by automation and accelerated decision cycles.
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