DON'T BE EVIL

 Once upon a time there was a little company with a big idea and big ideals that put itself out there for everyone to get to know and become familiar with and a lot of people liked it. Their unofficial motto at the time was, "don't be evil." They hired new management, adopted a new philosophy became unable to tell the difference between good and evil, found out they kind of liked evil and while people still use them they have about as much respect for their truth, integrity and honesty as CNN or the DNC. Nobody trusts them.

The War Department has been negotiating something foundational with Anthropic and it looked like one side was smugly wrapped in the arms of its own "don't be evil" code but the thing about appearances and reality is that reality cannot tolerate the appearance of 'suddenly defined unacceptable parameters.' If the War Department buys a product and it isn't lethal or designed to counter lethal effects or attacks or to repair awful damage than it really isn't spending the money the way the Public intended. Nobody want's a fuzzy tank or a warm wraparound friendly bomb.

It looks like Anthropic decided to go to the wall on its case against allowing some dickhead in a military uniform or any miscellaneous orange myrmidon to misuse its technology. That shows principles and integrity and so on and so forth. Good for Anthropic.

The Secretary of War has no choice now but to not only ban them from any and all Pentagon procurements,  but it also must kill every single intrusion of it into the upstream supply chain where the principles so dear to the founders and owners of Anthropic are allowed to trump the needs of the military and Defense Department. That ugly baby seal needs to be clubbed into nonexistence everywhere it tries to intrude its inflexible principles because Anthropic does not understand.

I'm sure I'm wrong it in this but I'm happy to stake the ground out. It could well be that the leaders of Anthropic are men of conviction and are unwilling to be the genesis of a new weapon or system that will get out of control. They don't want to be whoever it was that made Skybolt. Good for them. On the other hand what they refuse to accept is, 'that war makes monsters of us all.' A country cannot afford to farm out its conscience and its war-fighting to corporations.  

People and corporations and twits fail to understand that there are no rules in war. There are guidelines but they are not rules. Nobody can afford rules in war. 

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted…

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) February 27, 2026

 No country at war can tolerate idiots jumping in to share their attitudes on 'recklessness, hastiness, ferocity or any other imbecility that they can conceive of to shape and limit the amount of force and fire power brought to bear against the enemy and so limit the war to what they and they alone think is proper.' Oh they can yell about it and demonstrate all they like but they don't get to make the decisions. We did that when we elected the Commander-in-Chief.

This is how War is done. There is no other way. What Anthropic was demanding was a say in this. They are idiots. General Washington was absolutely right.