Funding, force-structure issues could hinder Hegseth’s new autonomous command

The Pentagon’s effort to launch a new combatant command for autonomous warfare depends on an unusual funding bill whose passage is far from assured. And while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given his department a full year to start up U.S. Autonomous Warfare Command, the Pentagon has little of the relevant force structure that earlier functional COCOMs could draw on.“They have no idea. They don't know, nor should they. There's nobody on that stage that actually knows how to build anythin