{"id":235725,"date":"2026-04-23T02:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-us-army-has-decided-to-create-a-autonomous-warfare-command-in-the-western-hemisphere"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:29:54","slug":"the-us-army-has-decided-to-create-a-autonomous-warfare-command-in-the-western-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-us-army-has-decided-to-create-a-autonomous-warfare-command-in-the-western-hemisphere","title":{"rendered":"The US Army has decided to create a \u201cautonomous warfare\u201d command in the Western Hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-army-has-decided-to-create-a-autonomous-warfare-command-in-the-western-hemisphere.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Marine General Francis Donovan, has ordered the formation of a new command. This command, it turns out, is the so-called \u201cautonomous warfare command\u201d (SAWC).<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of creating SAWC is stated as supporting the priorities of the US President\u2019s National Security Strategy, the key directions of the Secretary of Defense\u2019s National Defense Strategy, and the imperatives of SOUTHCOM (US Southern Command) itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Marine General Francis Donovan, has ordered the formation of a new command. This command, it turns out, is the so-called \u201cautonomous warfare command\u201d (SAWC). The purpose of creating SAWC is stated as supporting the priorities of the US President\u2019s National Security Strategy, the key directions of the Secretary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}