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
Institutions 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 a NATO operational headquarters, as an engineer building machine-learning systems, and as a lecturer teaching political science and conflict studies at CODE University Berlin. Seven years in the Bundeswehr taught me how institutions actually make decisions under pressure — not how they claim to, but how they really do.
Everything I write draws on open sources; the service years supply judgement, never content.
Contact
Working on future warfare, doctrine, or military AI?
Open to writing commissions, speaking, and advisory work.