The public framing of Anthropic's Pentagon exit centered on values — a safety-focused lab unwilling to participate in autonomous weapons applications. That framing is accurate as far as it goes, but it obscures the more consequential fact: the Pentagon's response was a procurement action, not a policy debate. Within weeks, filled every gap Anthropic's exit created, and the contract language that replaced Anthropic's safety conditions — "lawful operational use" — appeared across all of them. The replacement was not reluctant. No…