WarTalk: AutoWarCom + Project Meridian

Panelists broadly doubt both AutoWarCom and Project Meridian will meaningfully accelerate U.S. autonomous-weapons fielding, citing bureaucracy and conflict-of-interest risks.

• AutoWarCom's design flaw: Justin McIntosh argues a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command (via Project Agincourt/PAE) would centralize procurement and slow the distributed, theater-level autonomous-weapons experiments already underway.
• Bryan Clark's steelman: A functional combatant command modeled on CYBERCOM/STRATCOM could work as a 'clearinghouse' if services still generate forces and the command just packages them for regional commanders.

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