NEW FROM BLOOMBERG: The Defense Intelligence Agency has withdrawn a bid to improve a military intelligence system at the heart of lethal targeting following a protest from Palantir. Gift link at end.
Katrina Manson
@katrinamanson.bsky.social
Author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare https://wwnorton.com/books/project-maven
“A tour de force of reporting” Thank you @NPR for featuring my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare in your “Books We Love” list of nonfiction favorites so far this year. www.npr.org/2026/06/23/n...
Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year
A biography of Hannibal Lecter. A meditation on trees. A memoir by a child prodigy violinist. A treatise on the way we poop. These are just a few of the nonfiction books our NPR colleagues are enjoyin...
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Joined Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss my reporting about the deadly strike against the elementary school at Minab, Iran, that killed an estimated 120 children, longstanding problems with deficient US intelligence targeting databases and the atrophy of targeting over 20 years.
NEW: An analyst's missed remarks and US intelligence systems that weren’t connected to one another are among the missteps that investigators have surfaced while probing the cause of a missile strike on an Iranian school that killed an estimated 120 children, people familiar with the matter said.
SCOOP: Bloomberg reviewed the Pentagon’s latest April 2026 changes to its joint targeting doctrine, a non-public document, and it foresees AI, rather than humans in “current ‘human in the loop’ systems,” initiating targeting actions in future. Humans will monitor. Gift link below.
Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is on The Economist’s list of “The best books of 2026 so far” www.economist.com/culture/2026...
The best books of 2026 so far
Whether you are tight on time or have loads of it, here are our ideas for summer reading
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HAPPENING NOW: Bloomberg reporter @katrinamanson.bsky.social joins CSIS's Emily Harding to discuss her new book, Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. Listen to the conversation on the U.S. military’s first major AI initiative: https://bit.ly/4up7KgU
The Economist review of my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare calls it “one of the most important books on war and technology in many years” and describes it as “a scintillating account.” www.economist.com/culture/2026...
The AI that transformed American warfare
Maven not only identifies targets—it tells commanders how to attack them, too
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“Six New Books We Love This Week” Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is on the NYT’s Editors’ Choice list. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/b...
6 New Books We Love This Week
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SCOOP: Google abruptly dropped out of a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to create technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms after it was among the successful submissions, according to people briefed on the matter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Google Drops Out of Pentagon Drone Swarm Contest After Advancing
Google abruptly dropped out of a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to create technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms after it was among the successful submissions, according to pe...
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Exclusive: More than 580 Google workers including hundreds of AI researchers urge CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse classified military AI work, after senior Pentagon official tells me he is already in talks with Google. Our story on Bloomberg now, from me and Julia Love
Will be talking about impact and implications of Project Maven when it comes to defense-tech tomorrow in New York, 6-8pm. RSVP via link for free ticket. www.def.org/event-detail...
Thank you @nitasha.bsky.social and @bestbookstore.bsky.social for hosting a discussion about my book on the dawn of AI warfare. And thank you San Francisco for the questions! More here: bestbookstore.com/item/GFQL6zL...
Bookstore talk this evening in San Francisco. Looking forward to @nitasha.bsky.social’s questions about the Pentagon’s development of AI warfare and my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. Best Bookstore, Union Sq
Katrina Manson@katrinamanson.bsky.social · 4mo agoI will be talking about my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare in conversation with @nitasha.bsky.social this Friday 6.30pm at Best Bookstore in Union Square, San Francisco. Looking forward. RSVP (free) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/pentagon-a...
“Unflaggingly well-reported and well-sourced account of the ongoing reconfiguration of the U.S. armed forces for a new technological era” The New Yorker review of my book is out now: www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain
A new book charts the creation of a secretive system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks.
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it's truly a reporting feat and i can't wait to ask her how the f she pulled it off. RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/pentagon-a...
Pentagon AI Warfare: How We Got Here & What's Next w/Award-Winning Reporter
BEHIND THE SCENES: The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare
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Bay Area friends and fam, come thru this Fri! I'm interviewing @katrinamanson.bsky.social about AI, autonomous weapons, and her phenomenal new book "Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare" at Best Bookstore in Union Sq.
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio, co-piloted with Fionnuala Sweeney. @nadinebh.bsky.social and Nik Gowing on Israel-Lebanon talks and the day's other stuff, plus @katrinamanson.bsky.social on her tremendous/terrifying new book "Project Maven", a portent of AI warfare. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Israel and Lebanon face to face for the first time in decades - Monocle
The first meeting between officials since 1993 but will diplomacy make a difference? We discuss what can be achieved as...
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“Her new book, ‘Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,’ is an unflaggingly well-reported and well-sourced account of the ongoing reconfiguration of the U.S. armed forces for a new technological era.” 🙏
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo agoA new book charts the creation of a secretive A.I. system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
My book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is an @npr.org “Book of the Day” Thanks to Mary Louise Kelly for this interview about Project Maven and how the US is using AI in warfare, out on April 9. www.npr.org/2026/04/09/n...
Katrina Manson on 'Project Maven' and how the U.S. is using AI in warfare : NPR's Book of the Day
Marine Corps colonel Drew Cukor says AI will completely change the way the United States fights wars – and maybe already has. The new book Project Maven focuses on Cukor and the Pentagon campaign to i...
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I will be talking about my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare in conversation with @nitasha.bsky.social this Friday 6.30pm at Best Bookstore in Union Square, San Francisco. Looking forward. RSVP (free) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/pentagon-a...
Pentagon AI Warfare: How We Got Here & What's Next w/Award-Winning Reporter
BEHIND THE SCENES: The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare
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For the Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Katrina Manson, author of the new book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. They discussed the book, the war in Iran, the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute, and the future of war in the AI age.
Project Maven and the Age of AI Warfare
A conversation with Katrina Manson, author of the book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare.
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"I recently finished Katrina Manson’s “Project Maven”, which is the best book on AI and war I have read for many years. I also recommend Matthew Ford’s “War in the Smartphone Age”, which looks at how digital technologies are pulling ordinary citizens into the battlefield." - @shashj.bsky.social
Read an excerpt from award-winning reporter @katrinamanson.bsky.social's new book, Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare on Hard Reset www.hardresetmedia.com/p/whoor-what...
"Who—or what—gets to decide to take a human life? And who bears that cost?"
An excerpt adapted from PROJECT MAVEN: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare.
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Calling San Francisco! I will be talking about my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare at Best Bookstore in Union Square, San Francisco on Friday April 17 at 6.30pm. Please come and join the discussion! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/pentagon-a...
Pentagon AI Warfare: How We Got Here & What's Next w/Award-Winning Reporter
BEHIND THE SCENES: The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare
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@katrinamanson.bsky.social I’m enjoying reading your new book, Project Maven. I’m not sure what’s in store, but up to chapter 7, it’s an interesting and absorbing read and I recommend it.
Looking forward to discussing my new book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare with @theweekendprime.bsky.social
The Weekend: Primetime@theweekendprime.bsky.social · 4mo agoJOINING US - @charlesmblow.bsky.social, @sarahellison.bsky.social, @moulton.house.gov, Kian Tajbakhsh , @davidrohde.bsky.social, @jayapal.house.gov, Gen. Randy Manner, @katrinamanson.bsky.social