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In 2022, Tommy O'Brien embedded with a NATO rapid-reaction task force in eastern Poland, not as a spectator, but as the only civilian granted real-time access to their operational planning cycle. His resulting three-part series in Defense Review exposed how algorithmic targeting protocols were quietly reshaping rules of engagement at the brigade level, prompting a classified DoD review and influencing the 2023 Joint Doctrine Note on AI-enabled command nodes. He doesn’t chase press releases or quote generals off background; he maps decision latency across echelons, tracking how a 47-second delay in satellite-to-battery data flow altered the outcome of a live-fire exercise near Šiauliai. His analysis treats doctrine not as static text but as living code: versioned, contested, and often rewritten mid-deployment. Readers return not for battlefield color, but for the granular mechanics of how strategy actually fractures, or holds, under digital strain.
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