{"id":66648,"date":"2026-06-08T21:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/66648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:49:10","slug":"combatant-commands-generating-war-plans-faster-and-sooner-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/66648\/","title":{"rendered":"Combatant commands generating war plans \u2018faster and sooner\u2019 with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. military\u2019s nuclear and mobility forces are using AI to generate higher-quality options for logistics and sustainment maneuvers and operations, according to two combatant commanders who lead them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are constantly discovering new areas and new ways to apply these tools, and in each case we are finding that we can get to solutions and get to meaningful conversations sooner \u2014 with better information \u2014 and, actually, it\u2019s making us stronger and much, much faster,\u201d said Gen. Randall Reed, the commander of U.S. Transportation Command.<\/p>\n

During a joint interview with DefenseScoop<\/a> at a Sierra Nevada Corporation facility in Colorado last week, Reed and U.S. Strategic Command Commander Adm. Richard Correll said their teams are increasingly deploying AI and machine learning to speed up planning processes for routing and asset management.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot to sound trite,\u201d Correll noted, \u201cbut we\u2019re at an inflection point, and this technology is accelerating \u2014 and it is the mega-trend that underpins this discussion of the changing character of warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stratcom is known for its management of America\u2019s nuclear arsenal. Beyond that work, the command supplies global surveillance and intelligence to other commands, including capabilities to help ensure the logistics networks and nodes that Transcom relies on to move troops and equipment are not disrupted by adversaries.<\/p>\n

Correll said Transcom enables \u201cso many different aspects of Stratcom\u2019s mission\u201d to deliver strategic deterrence to the nation while also supporting multiple, real-world military campaigns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe obvious one is the global strike capability,\u201d Correll told DefenseScoop, referring to the strategic U.S. military assets and operational doctrine.<\/p>\n

Different combatant commanders will receive instructions from the defense secretary to drive certain outcomes when new conflicts or issues arise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In some cases, Reed said Transcom may provide forces for Stratcom or other commands to complete particular parts of the missions. Transcom could play a part<\/a> in posturing or repositioning other commands\u2019 forces to ensure everyone and everything is where they need to be for the operation to succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s much more complicated than just providing an airplane, and it\u2019s much more complicated than a logistics node \u2014 it\u2019s really Transcom going back with its global perspective to assess what needs to happen around the entire world to make sure that we are set, and in some cases set ahead of [Correll], in order for him to do his job,\u201d Reed explained. \u201cBy including AI, we can generate options for him faster and sooner for him to consider, such that he can accelerate the development of options for his scheme of maneuver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Offering another modern use case, Reed said Transcom is also deploying AI and machine learning<\/a> to better gauge natural elements that could influence the military\u2019s operations and movements.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne important thing for us is weather and environmental factors, such as sea states. AI helps us to predict when we can accelerate a flow through a certain area, or when we may be slowed down, or when we may have to change a routing and that kind of thing,\u201d Reed told DefenseScoop.<\/p>\n

For Stratcom, AI is allowing personnel to \u201caccelerate decision loops\u201d at a faster pace than U.S. adversaries, Correll said, noting that the technology is also \u201cenabling all kinds of insights\u201d for the \u201cmilitary element of national power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cData advantage for decision advantage for warfighting advantage \u2014 that\u2019s how I think about it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd within Stratcom\u2019s portfolio, when you\u2019re talking about our strategic nuclear capabilities, we will be very deliberate about the technology we will employ [and] we will maintain a human-in-the-loop for decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Brandi<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Brandi Vincent
\n\t\t\tBrandi Vincent is a Senior Reporter at DefenseScoop, where she reports on disruptive technologies and associated policies impacting Pentagon and military personnel. Prior to joining SNG, she produced a documentary and worked as a journalist at Nextgov, Snapchat and NBC Network. Brandi grew up in Louisiana and received a master\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. She was named Best New Journalist at the 2024 Defence Media Awards.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. military\u2019s nuclear and mobility forces are using AI to generate higher-quality options for logistics and sustainment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37542,24,25,111,203,37543,37544,37545,37546,37547],"class_list":["post-66648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-adm-richard-correll","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-data","tag-gen-randall-reed","tag-stratcom","tag-strategic-command","tag-transcom","tag-u-s-transportation-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}