Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
Elon Musk at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington DC on Tuesday. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/ReutersView image in fullscreenElon Musk at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington DC on Tuesday. Combined, these new domains, new ways of fighting, and technological developments will profoundly alter the character of warfare,” Hegseth said in a memo.
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- ▪Photograph: Kylie Cooper/ReutersView image in fullscreenElon Musk at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington DC on Tuesday.
- ▪Combined, these new domains, new ways of fighting, and technological developments will profoundly alter the character of warfare,” Hegseth said in a memo.
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Elon Musk at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington DC on Tuesday. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/ReutersView image in fullscreenElon Musk at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington DC on Tuesday. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/ReutersElon MuskPete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good gracesNick Robins-EarlyWed 30 Sep 2026 17.18 EDTLast modified on Wed 30 Sep 2026 17.26 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GooglePete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, marking the SpaceX CEO’s first return to government since he ran the chaotic, so -called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge.
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