The strong form’s claim for AI, that it is the layer that discovers, designs, aims, coordinates, defends and improves every other weapon. Chapters 1, 8.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 1 — The Stakes
What the race is for: the belief that a lead in AI can compound into a lasting advantage, how long such leads have actually lasted, and what a trillion dollars a year is being bet against.
- Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal
The state as customer: how the Pentagon buys frontier AI, the contract clauses a laboratory fought over, and what the courts said about a company that would not sign.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Arsenal behind every arsenal.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/arsenal-behind-every-arsenal (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-arsenal-behind-every-arsenal-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Arsenal behind every arsenal}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/arsenal-behind-every-arsenal},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}