The shift from Anthropic to OpenAI represents a classic “motte-and-bailey” maneuver—the Pentagon, seeking a functioning AI solution after a perceived failure, has now embraced OpenAI, framing it as a pragmatic, responsive alternative. The underlying assumption is that OpenAI’s for-profit model, coupled with its expanded partnership network, provides a greater degree of resilience and flexibility than Anthropic’s previous, more narrowly focused approach. The admitted month-long delay in transitio...