Christoph Brauer
Future warfare · Doctrine · Military AI
U.S. Air Force photo · A1C William Rio Rosado · public domain
Future warfare · Doctrine · Military AI
U.S. Air Force photo · A1C William Rio Rosado · public domain
Institutions adapt one war too late.
The argument behind the book & the writing
Technology is the easy part.
U.S. Air National Guard photo · MSgt Mysti Bicoy · public domain
The book
Manuscript in final stageDrones, AI, Ukraine, and the wars we're not ready for
The wars of the past years have exposed a widening gap between what technology makes possible and what military institutions are organised to do. The book argues that this gap — not any single weapon — is the decisive variable of the next war, and examines what closing it would actually take.
U.S. Army photo · SSgt Gregory Summers · public domain
U.S. Air Force photo · SrA JT Armstrong · public domain
Selected writing
In 1924 the Royal Air Force wrote down that the lessons of military history did not apply to the bomber. The bill arrived in 1941. Three questions reveal which of today's drone and AI claims are built the same way.
Newsletter
Field Notes — occasional dispatches on future warfare, doctrine, and military AI. No noise, no schedule promises.
SubscribeInstitutions are the hard part.
DoD photo · PO Richard R. Waite, U.S. Navy · public domain
U.S. Army photo · Capt. Robert Smith · public domain
About
As an officer inside an operational headquarters, as an engineer building machine-learning systems, and as a lecturer teaching political science and security studies at CODE University Berlin. Thirteen years in the Bundeswehr — seven as an officer, serving in an operational HQ and NATO joint operations — taught me how institutions actually make decisions under pressure — not how they claim to, but how they really do.
My academic grounding is in political science — international relations and international law. At CODE, my teaching runs from the big questions — why nations go to war, how technology transforms warfare — to the current ones: military AI, GovTech & DefTech, and the politics of emerging technology. Beyond the classroom, I'm the go-to for founder teams venturing into DefTech and GovTech.
Everything I write draws on open sources. The years in uniform shape how I read them — they are never the source itself.
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Open to writing commissions, speaking, and advisory work.
