Hegseth Hands Musk The Future Of War, Builds A Killer Robot Command
Published: October 1, 2026
Duration: 2:50
Pete Hegseth just put Elon Musk in charge of planning America’s future wars, then launched a brand new four-star command to buy the robots to fight them. The Secretary of Defense rolled it all out Wednesday at Quantico in a speech he called the State of the Force, which sounds like a Star Wars sequel that went straight to streaming.
It’s called Project Meridian. Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich get 120 days to map out the future of war:
“from subterranean depths to the cislunar frontier.”
Cislunar means between here and...