Building a New Brain: Transforming Military Schoolhouses into AI Battle Labs

The U.S. military's AI strategy should transform its senior military colleges into AI battle labs, moving beyond traditional education to applied problem-solving. This approach would turn classrooms into centers for AI training and research, where student and faculty solutions to operational problems are captured and used to refine AI systems. This process of reinforcement learning with human feedback would create a modern version of the general staff, building a collective "brain" for the military. Implementing this vision requires structural changes to make schools smaller and more elite, and a cultural shift where faculty engage in applied research with students on modern warfare.