Episode Notes:

Nicole sits down with Army veteran Jason Marquita to trace a nearly 27-year career that ran from West Point to two high-pressure command-and-control assignments: a situational awareness room in Kabul and the Pentagon’s 24/7 watch floor. Marquith describes how watch officers turn a constant flood of reports into the handful of things a commander truly needs to know, and the discipline it takes to get that right when the stakes are highest. The two then discuss how far artificial intelligence can go in automating that kind of triage, and where a human in the loop remains essential.

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