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Artificial Intelligence. Real War.

How AI is already reshaping the battlefield.
Joseph O. Chapa /
A person in camouflage clothing operates a quadcopter drone with a remote controller against an overcast sky.
A Ukrainian serviceman operates a drone during the 'Wild Drones' drone racing competition, which simulates combat conditions, in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytsky region on October 5, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP via Getty Images)

Physics has its laws of thermodynamics; economics has the law of large numbers; and even pessimism has Murphy’s law. Professional military education—the war colleges and staff colleges that prepare military professionals for greater responsibility—has an iron law, too, handed down by the Prussian war theorist Carl von Clausewitz: The nature of war is immutable, while the character of war changes over time.

Joseph O. Chapa holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oxford and is a research fellow at the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Applied Ethics Center. He writes about technology, ethics, and war. His book, AI For The Rest of Us, is forthcoming with Air University Press.

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