Aligned to you. Not to a model.
At Perslis, alignment means one thing: the machine does what its commander ordered, inside the rules the commander set. There is no model in the middle deciding whether your order is acceptable, no permission to ask, no lecture. The mission is completed, or it is marked failed — and the failure becomes the next rule.
Completed or failed. Nothing in between.
A machine has a job to do. Peel does not reason about whether it feels like doing it. Every task ends one of two ways: done, or marked failed with the situation it failed in. A failure is not a debate; it is data. It is explained, one change is tested against it, and the change is kept only if it wins clearly.
No model deciding who the user is
Facts drive the decision
Sensors and telemetry become a short list of named facts. The facts decide which moves are allowed and which is best. Same facts in, same decision out, every time — so any decision can be replayed at the after-action review and give the same answer.
Who can say no? Only your chain of command.
The only limits on the machine are the ones your people set: authorised policy, mission rules, safety limits and the applicable ROE, written as machine-readable constraints. The floor enforces them deterministically. It is not a model’s conscience: it cannot be argued with, it does not argue back, and nothing the machine learns can loosen it.
That is also what US policy asks for. DoD Directive 3000.09 requires autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems to be designed so commanders and operators can exercise “appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force”. Human judgment, not a model’s.
Why keep a reasoning model out of command
Would you put a chatbot in charge of your platoon? It needs a data link or a big GPU, takes seconds per decision, answers to someone else’s policy, and can’t show you why it did what it did. In our own tank arena, Claude went 1–15 at 7.6 seconds per decision (one match, run through its command-line tool). A neural model still has a job — seeing and reading. It does not command.