The Transformation Framework: The Role of Artificial Intelligence for Military Strategies (RAI4MS)

Introduction

It not a secret that conflicts, wars and military investments are the backbone for major global economies’ evolution, stagnation or failure. Military organizations are the ones who drive major AI based technological transformation and innovation trends. The most known case is the internet, where USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), developed technologies for interlinking packet networks to support communication protocols that was called the Internetting project; and today this concept is known as the Internet… AI based military technology transformation and innovation projects are based on major financing capabilities, ideology and also on the factor of demography. Entities, are increasingly using complex technologies to gain geopolitical and hence economical advantage. Transformed Entities, have to face new challenges and geopolitical Risks (gRisk), when implementing their AI decision systems, complex infrastructure, organizational concept and Information and Communication System (ICS). One of the most important gRisks is related to finding the right balance between, AI based Military Technology (AIbMT), military strategy, financial capabilities, geopolitical knowledge, combative status and the evolution of demography. Therefore, the stability of an Entity depends a holistic strategy, like the one proposed in this article, the RAI4MS to support the Entity’s transformation projects. The RAI4MS includes a methodology and a concept to manage the Entity’s geological stability and tries to detect the main gRisk, which is that an Entity may lose the sense of reality, by thinking that only AIbMT and financial investments will solve all types of military conflicts. RAI4MS and automated tactics are the basis of managing modern warfare, in which technology strategy includes the design, planning, coordination, preparing and directing military activities to meet the Entity’s main geopolitical, economic and military objectives. Tactical scenarios implement strategy by short-term and long-term decisions on the Entity’s troops activities and the usage of technology and weapons in confrontations. The known military specialist Carl von Clausewitz defines tactics as: Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war. Winning a war open new markets and business opportunities… Strategy, technology and tactics, however, have been used differently in different periods of history. The main change in the usage of these terms in evolution of technology, is the notion of scope and the nature of warfare, as well as the context of the Entities in conflict and the development of technologies. Strategy means, the art of the general (from the Greek term strategos), which originally meant just planning of a military campaign. Therefore, until the 17^th and 18^th centuries strategy included various military issues, like, building fortifications, maneuver and supply. In the 19^th and 20^th centuries, nations have witnessed the rise of mass ideologies, vast conscript armies, global alliances and ultra-rapid technological change, which made RAI4MS become practically similar to grand strategy, that is based on planning and the optimal usage of the Entity’s main pools of resources that includes: human, military, technological, economic and political resources. The actual change in the scope and meaning of RAI4MS and automated tactics is due to the vast changes and evolution of technologies. Tactics is a very complex activity that is used to be distinguished from strategy because the two are interdependent; and in the 20^th century, tactics has been redefined as operational strategy. RAI4MS includes limited tactics’ possibilities; which depends on the size, training and the morale of armed forces, type and volume of weapons available, terrain, weather, demography, technological capacities, quality and location of enemy armed forces… Tactics are very dependent on strategic considerations (Cheyney, 2021); where today, technological capacities are probably the most important ones. Entity’s technology or ICS capacities, enables the processing and coordination of its various organizations, which have a large set of applications and resources. These applications are used in order to serve people, leaders and executive management, who are supported by a Decision Making System (DMS). The DMS and technology evolutions have enabled to the transformation of monolithic legacy systems. Such a transformed systems needs an optimal RAI4MS that includes the following factors and areas: 1) The design of the needed AIbMT; 2) Manage and control financial capabilities; 3) Build geopolitical knowledge; 4) Enhance combative moral and status; and 5) The evolution of demography. These factors and areas are interrelated and their disbalance may create major setbacks and even major defeats, like in the cases the Western armies, losing ground in the Middle East Area (MEA) and other parts of the world. The loss of the sense of reality, by relying only on AIbMT and financial conflicts will offer easy victories to the Entities enemies. Humans and their sustainable demography, stay the Entities and its military’s armed forces, major asset and the used technology is just an auxiliary factor. Entity’s defense capability process operates in parallel with many other management, security, policy, regulatory and governance frameworks. RAI4MS’ central element is Enterprise Architecture (EA) that was introduced in Defense strategies, to support their ICS. Many Entities embraced EA to support their defense and government strategies. The RAI4MS comprises a set of templates and diagrammatic forms. USA’ Department of Defense (DoD) Architecture Framework (DoDAF), that uses an EA based approach (DoDAF 2010); however, the RAI4MS differs greatly from DoDAF because of its holistic approach (Hue, 2014). This article’s Research and Development Project (RDP) will offer a resultant set of recommendation to support the RAI4MS.