Would you stake thousands of lives on a strategy that, by every measure of your training and experience, seems destined for catastrophic failure?In 1863, with the Vicksburg campaign stalled, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant conceived a plan that left Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman predicting defeat: The Union Army of the Tennessee would march deep into enemy territory, cutting loose its own supply lines to attack the city from the rear. Sherman, himself no slouch in warfare, saw it as reckless — a trap an “enemy would be glad to manoeuvre a year… to get [Grant] in.” Indeed, it defiedThe post Alien Oracles: Military Decision-Making with Unexplainable AI appeared first on War on the Rocks.