Google's willingness to proceed despite open internal opposition reflects something broader than corporate confidence: the accountability structure for AI-enabled military action has been redesigned in a way that makes executive decisions easier to sustain. When harm occurs in an AI-mediated operation, the chain of responsibility runs toward the model and away from the organization that trained, licensed, and deployed it. The employees who signed the open letter understand this — their objection is precisely that classified military use becomes impossible to oversee from inside the company . The deal's scope,…