AI will improve warfare by cutting wartime death rates, because commanders now decide under pressure on sharply limited information.

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  AI-enabled cyberwarfare lacks an equivalent of nuclear deterrence's mutually assured destruction.

  Andreessen expects AI to cut wartime death rates, because commanders currently decide under pressure on sharply limited information. Smith says AI-enabled cyberwarfare has no equivalent of mutually assured destruction. Better decisions inside a war and no stable deterrent between wars are answers to different questions, and the second is the one that decides how many wars there are.

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• 'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting. LFLawrence Freedman10 Oct 2025war
• A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible. BMBranko Milanovic26 Aug 2026war
• A country whose economy and military are deeply entangled with a dominant neighbor will keep getting stuck with choices that run counter to its own national interests. HFHenry Farrell15 Sept 2026war
• A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded. SGScott Greenfield27 Aug 2026war
• A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted. JWJack Weatherford31 Jul 2025war

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