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SECRETARY OF WAR
1000 DEFENSE PENTAGON
WASHINGTON, DC 20301-1000
DEC - 9 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DEPARTMENT OF WAR PERSONNEL
SUBJECT: Harness Artificial Intelligence Now with GenAl
I am pleased to introduce GenAl.mil, a secure generative artificial intelligence (Al) platform for every member of the Department of War. It is live today and available on the desktops of all military personnel, civilians, and contractors. With this launch we are taking a giant step toward mass Al adoption across the Department. This tool marks the beginning of a new era where every member of our workforce can be more efficient and impactful.
The first GenAl platform capability is Google Gemini, a frontier Al application that can help you write documents, ask questions, conduct deep research, format content, and unlock new possibilities across your daily workflows. Gemini is the first of several enterprise Al applications that will be rolled out on the GenAI platform. It is secure, certified up to Impact Level 5 (ILS), and is fully authorized to handle CUI.
Victory belongs to those who embrace real innovation. Rather than being reliant on the dusty, antiquated systems of a bygone era, we are thinking ahead here in the Department of War. GenAl.mil is part of this monumental transformation. It removes wasted time and focuses more of our energy into decisive results for the warfighter.
Access is straightforward. Navigate to GenAl.mil and you will be able to access the tool with your CAC. The platform is certified secure for operational use on NIPR.
I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. Al should be in your battle rhythm every single day.
It should be your teammate. By mastering this tool, we will outpace our adversaries. The power is now in your hands.
memo via https://xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/status/1998829304856068344
Battle rhythm?
Who is this insufferable little twat?
This freak has his head so far up rich tech bro’s assholes he could lick their tonsils.
Sorry about rolling that grenade under your bunk Mr. Secretary, GenAI told me to do it.
I miss thinking the general populace might understand sweet fuckall about computers someday.
*sighs, drinks*
Isn’t this just proof they don’t understand a thing about computers?..
YES
Battle rhythm?
The only rhythm this guy has is the aRHYTHMia his heart goes through when he hasn’t had a drink and the DTs kick in.
Not only do I expect it to produce nonsensical advice that results in combat losses and other negligence, I also expect it to be used as an excuse to deflect blame for war crimes.
Why did you massacre these unarmed children private?
I was just following orders sir.
Who’s orders?
Grok sir.
Well in that case, I think that ones still breathing.
Grok called for that secondary strike on those fishermen.
Now taking bets for when the major leak of military secrets will occur
Annnnnd they’ve gone.
Leak? Never. Google will secure those assets for itself and use them to build the Torment Nexus.
Oh, that device from the classic “Don’t Build the Torment Nexus!” series of science fiction novels? Wow, I can’t believe the future is finally here.
AI probably wrote Hegseth’s email, TBH.
Oh boy, it will be doubly difficult now to tell insane policy apart from the hallucinations.
I’ve been hoping the entire past year was a hallucination, myself.
Is Petey on the sauce again?
He used to be. He still is now, but he used to be as well.
“again”?
Yeah pretty sure he never left it.
Go ahead Trumpmerica, shoot yourself in the foot.
Had to use daddy’s sharpie to sign
I hope the plague wipes his entire family line. Seriously. Black death? Take this one. We don’t need him.
First of all, fucking LOL at Google Gemini being secure. They are really setting themselves up for failure here. But something tells me they don’t care and they never will because they never will be held accountable for this colossal fuckup Stevie Wonder could see a mile off.
Second, he’s right that wars will be won by those who embrace innovation. Pretending AI doesn’t exist or hating it isn’t a great strategy in a war with an opponent who is using it. I’m actually reading a book right now, that takes place in 2026 but was written in, I think 2009? And it’s about a secret military organisation (out of Japan) building AI “people” for the purpose of having them fully man drones. AI-based pilots, basically, but they think they’re real people and are capable of the same level of thought as we are. (Of course this is science fiction, but you think they aren’t thinking about that? Or that it’s even that crazy that it couldn’t happen next year?) (The book is volume 10 of Sword Art Online, which was adapted into the third season of the anime of the same name. They do talk about this stuff in the third and fourth seasons, but the books go way further into detail.)
So, much as I don’t like it (and think it’s funny that they can trust a data broker’s AI), I agree with Hegseth on that one point. They have to match wits and tech with the enemy or risk being overrun. They don’t have to like the weapons of the battlefield, but they damn sure better be prepared to face them, either with similar armaments of their own, or something different that can counter it (e.g. virus vs virus, or virus vs firewall).
Edit: But with regards to SAO, I mean we already have self-driving cars, so self-driving drones shouldn’t even be that far off, if we don’t already have them. I think SAO got way too wordy with what a self-driving drone really needs to be. Like Kawahara says it needs to be a full person with morality and all that? No the fuck it doesn’t. It just needs to be able to identify a target and launch weapons at it or crash into it. That’s it.
This is a fucking chatbot, not autonomous, intelligent machines LOL
Absolute techbro brain. Something literally appears in my favorite sci-fi media, therefore it should and must exist even if it’s clearly a bad thing in the context of the media (we have built the torment nexus). I honestly think a lack of media literacy is driving a huge portion of tech nonsense, a complete inability to read anything into a text and understand the societal and human impact of the things being discussed. Instead it’s “I’m all out of big ideas, time to mine 80’s movies for things to pitch to investors”.
LLMs and genAI in general is a fill in the blank machine. What possible use in military strategy could they provide?
First of all, fucking LOL at Google Gemini being secure.
Look, I’m all for hating on AI. I also have zero love for any of the tech giants. But this is a just plain ignorant statement. Google and most every cloud services provider have sovereign cloud offerings. Accessing any data above Unclassified is progressively more difficult. Humans are the weak link in the security chain.
LOL at Google Gemini being secure.
The Google Gemini you and I use, is not the same Google Gemini that the government or military uses. We have Ms Copilot where I work, and I know that there has gone extensive work and money into the license used, in order to maintain data responsibility and security
photo of Microsoft executives after selling your employer a special license to enable copilot to have enhanced security
Yeah for real, they don’t give a fuck. You might be better off with security through obscurity using stock stuff.
