For most of military history, weapons have done exactly what people told them to do. A rifle fires when someone pulls the trigger. A missile follows the guidance programmed into it. Even sophisticated precision weapons execute decisions made by human operators....
Visitors often think of San Diego as sunshine, beaches, and palm trees. They’re not wrong. But they are only seeing half the city. San Diego has always been a military town. Long before biotechnology, software companies, and craft breweries became part of its...
People often ask where ideas for a novel come from. Some begin with a character. Others with a place. The Whitlock Protocol began with a question. What happens when a weapon no longer needs permission to learn? For more than three decades, I covered the U.S. military...
