DARPA tests its Artificial Intelligence on the Starcraft game

In a previous article, we have the doctrinal changes underway within the Pentagon to adapt to the challenges posed to the American armed forces by the high intensity conflicts to come, in particular against Russia and China. The main axis chosen by the American General Staff is based on the great flexibility offered by the integration of new communication and analysis systems, distributed over the whole of the “Kill Chain”, which we will translate here as “Chain of Commitment ”. In order to assess the capabilities offered by this new approach, and to prepare officers and equipment to cope with it, DARPA has launched a sensible artificial intelligence program to simulate all the tactical decisions, even the most “underhand”, offered. by the new doctrine, but also its weaknesses in the face of an experienced adversary, accustomed to using unconventional methods to achieve victory. Any resemblance to a certain parachute brigade in Crimea without any distinctive mark to freeze the Western response for the time necessary to secure all the strategic sites in the region, would naturally be perfectly fortuitous.

This program, identified by the code name Gamebreaker, aims to design an adaptive Artificial Intelligence capable, as required by the new US doctrine, of exploiting at all levels the opportunities identified by the units of the Chain of Commitment, and of quickly and efficiently reorienting the global effort to optimize its efficiency. After a test and learning phase, the program will be integrated into the hyper-realistic simulation developed by Matrix Game " Command: Modern Operation“, Able to simulate all the commitments going from the cold war to today. The ultimate goal is to integrate this Artificial Intelligence into the Chain of Commitment in order to provide unit and grouping commanders with quantified tactical alternatives coordinated at the theater level.

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