# AI Warfare **Entity class:** Military-technology concept ## Definition **AI warfare** is the integration of machine learning, autonomy, computer vision, language systems, optimization, and agentic software into military sensing, planning, cyber operations, logistics, command and control, targeting support, and weapons. Its effects arise from speed, scale, coordination, and adaptation across the force. ## Relevance to this collection It connects [[wiki/Military AI|Military AI]], [[wiki/CJADC2|CJADC2]], [[wiki/Project Maven|Project Maven]], [[wiki/Human-Machine Teaming|Human-Machine Teaming]], and [[wiki/Decision Speed|Decision Speed]]. ## Relationships - **master collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **intellectual neighborhood:** [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [U.S. Department of Defense, *Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy*, November 2, 2023](https://media.defense.gov/2023/Nov/02/2003333300/-1/-1/1/DOD-DATA-ANALYTICS-AI-ADOPTION-STRATEGY.PDF). **As of:** 2026-09-23 ## The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War > “A decisive machine-intelligence advantage does not merely produce a better weapon; it can create asymmetric capability across science, cyber operations, economic planning, intelligence, industry, logistics, persuasion, administration and the production of knowledge itself.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War, 2026* [[reminders/AI Superpower/Machine Intelligence Creates Advantage Across Every Domain by Bryant McGill|Machine Intelligence Creates Advantage Across Every Domain by Bryant McGill]] > “A civilization that dominates sufficiently capable AI need not occupy another country to achieve the strategic effects of conquest; it can dominate the information environment, technological standards, scientific tempo, industrial productivity, cyber domain, financial infrastructure and military decision cycle within which the other society must operate.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War, 2026* [[reminders/Sovereignty/AI Can Achieve Conquest Without Occupation by Bryant McGill|AI Can Achieve Conquest Without Occupation by Bryant McGill]]