Legally permissible, but still bad faith contract management by the government.

Every battlefield from here on out is a competition between autoshot ai capabilities and the armies building/deploying/maintaining them.

It should not be up to an AI company to point out that this breaks the founding conditions of the United States, nor should they be placed in a position to be scapegoated for potential implications of this if left undefined.

Rock and a hard place, by a government with shockingly few qualms about placing any and all Americans in such positions whenever polling, survival, or perceived personal benefit dictates.