🧩 BND Motif Index · M111
The future of warfare
A new technology, such as drones, AI, or automated shipyards, is said to transform how wars are fought, making old forces and doctrines obsolete.
- 4claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 This changes everything
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Anduril and US Navy invest $6.6 billion in submarine parts production 2026-10-07
- 📰 Drone attack sinks ship in Black Sea 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-08
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-16 “The IDF uses AI systems to target individuals and accepts high civilian death ratios.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-07 “Defense contractor Anduril is investing $3.7 billion to build a new shipyard in Baltimore for manufacturing parts for Virginia-class submarines, with support from the Navy and public figures like Donald Trump.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Russian drones attacked two merchant ships off the coast of Bulgaria, sinking one and disabling the other, sparking international condemnation and a search for the missing crew.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-01 “The Pentagon is secretly planning a new military project led by Elon Musk and Donald Trump to control the future of warfare.” 🔎 Snopes
M111 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-25 · what this is · how the index works