在最近一次面向高级军事将领的讲话中，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯宣布启动“子午线计划”（Project Meridian）——一项新倡议，旨在通过“明确在下一代战场上实现绝对技术优势所需的能力”，制定“塑造未来战争中美军主导地位的主动愿景”。这一描述听起来属于相当标准的国防政策规划，但负责该计划的几位负责人却远非标准人选：前众议院议长纽特·金里奇，以及富有影响力的国防承包商埃隆·马斯克和帕尔默·拉基。
In a recent speech to top military officers, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian — a new initiative to formulate a “proactive vision for shaping American dominance in the future of warfare” by “identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield.”That description is fairly standard defense policy planning, but the chairs of the effort are anything but standard: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and wealthy defense contractors Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey.
宣布“子午线计划”不到一周，五角大楼就向拉基的公司安杜里尔（Anduril）授予了一份价值29亿美元的合同，用于制造潜艇零部件，并签署了另一份价值19亿美元的合同，以扩大其指挥控制系统软件的规模。总统唐纳德·特朗普甚至亲自前往巴尔的摩，为这份潜艇合同站台。这些只是特朗普政府让毫无资质的亿万富翁日益深入渗透美国国家安全体系的最近期例证。
Less than a week after announcing Project Meridian, the Pentagon awarded Luckey’s company Anduril a $2.9 billion contract to build components for submarines, and another contract worth $1.9 billion to scale up command and control software. President Donald Trump even traveled to Baltimore to tout the submarine contract. These are just the latest examples of how the Trump administration is letting unqualified billionaires burrow ever deeper into the U.S. national security apparatus.
即便马斯克和拉基并非共和党捐款人，让国防承包商主导五角大楼的规划项目，本身也构成了严重的利益冲突。
Even if Musk and Luckey weren’t Republican donors, putting defense contractors in charge of a Pentagon planning project is a massive conflict of interest.
试图预测并规划未来战争的发展方向本是好事，因为当下的决策将决定十年或二十年后美军将拥有哪些武器系统和部队结构。五角大楼的“内部智库”——网络评估办公室（Office of Net Assessment），曾持续50多年开展此类研究，直到赫格塞斯于2025年将其关闭。该办公室以高学历、非党派的专业人才闻名——而这正是赫格塞斯在其政治化的清洗行动中针对的那类国防部门员工。相比之下，马斯克、拉基以及“子午线计划”显然是一个糟糕的替代方案。
Trying to anticipate and plan for the future of warfare is good, since decisions made now shape which weapons systems and force structures the U.S. military will have in a decade or two. The Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon’s “internal think tank,” conducted such research for more than 50 years, until Hegseth closed it in 2025 . The Office of Net Assessment was known for highly educated, nonpartisan eggheads — the type of Department of Defense employee Hegseth has targeted in his politicized purges . Musk, Luckey and Project Meridian make for a terrible replacement.
这简直糟糕透顶——除非赫格塞思的目标就是加剧五角大楼的利益冲突，并为共和党捐赠者创造收入。在过去两个选举周期中，马斯克一直是特朗普和共和党的最大捐赠者，他花费了2.88亿美元，帮助他们在2024年当选。甚至在特朗普第二个任期之前，马斯克旗下相互关联的SpaceX、xAI和特斯拉公司就已经获得了价值数百亿美元的政府合同，而在过去两年里，现任政府又向他的公司授予了数十亿美元的合同。
Terrible, that is, unless Hegseth’s goal is to increase the Pentagon’s conflicts of interest and generate income for GOP donors. Musk has been Trump’s and the Republicans’ biggest donor the past two electoral cycles, spending $288 million to get them elected in 2024. Even before Trump’s second term, Musk’s intertwined companies SpaceX, xAI and Tesla received tens of billions of dollars in government contracts, and over the past two years, the current administration has awarded his firms billions more .
拉基是共和党的主要“资金整合人”，他不仅自己捐款，还向他人募集资金。（此外，唐纳德·特朗普小儿子旗下的投资公司1789 Capital在Anduril公司中持有重要股份。）最近这两份五角大楼合同，是在特朗普第二个任期内授予的数十亿美元合同之外新增的。尽管《华尔街日报》去年曾报道，Anduril的业绩记录显示其存在技术失败和安全问题，但该公司仍接连获得了意外之财。
Luckey is a major Republican “ bundler ” who both gives money himself and solicits donations from others. (And Donald Trump Jr.’s investment firm 1789 Capital has a major stake in Anduril.) The two recent Pentagon contracts come on top of contracts worth billions awarded in Trump’s second term. The company has received windfall after windfall even though, as The Wall Street Journal reported last year, Anduril’s record shows technological failure and safety issues . (The company defended its “highly iterative model of technology development” in a statement to the Journal, but added, “We do fail … a lot.”)
（该公司在一份向《华尔街日报》发表的声明中为其“高度迭代的技术开发模式”进行了辩护，但也补充道：“我们确实……经常失败。”）2026年10月8日 / 11:11即使马斯克和拉基并非共和党捐赠者，让国防承包商负责五角大楼的规划项目本身就是一个巨大的利益冲突。马斯克的公司向政府提供太空发射、卫星互联网和人工智能服务，并且正在涉足机器人领域。
October 8, 2026 / 11:11 Even if Musk and Luckey weren’t Republican donors, putting defense contractors in charge of a Pentagon planning project is a massive conflict of interest. Musk’s companies sell the government services in space launch, satellite internet and artificial intelligence, and they’re getting into robotics.
拉基的公司则销售无人机、软件、弹药和军事自动化系统。他们对美国未来军事战略的思考，不可避免地会反映其公司目前能够提供以及未来希望提供的产品和服务，还有他们期望获得的合同。（五角大楼、马斯克或拉基的公司均未就潜在的利益冲突发表评论。）正因如此，尽管国防承包商此前也曾为军事战略项目提供建议，但他们通常只是多个被咨询的机构之一，而非主导者。
Luckey’s companies sell drones, software, munitions and military automation. Their thoughts about the future of U.S. military strategy will unavoidably reflect what their companies can provide now and aim to provide in the future, and the contracts they hope to secure. (Neither the Pentagon nor Musk or Luckey’s companies have commented on potential conflicts .) That’s why, while defense contractors have advised military strategy projects before, they’re usually one of multiple consulted parties, not the chairs.
如果某家承包商同时也是国防专家，那么让其担任主导或许还有道理，但马斯克和拉基在国家安全和战争方面毫无经验。两人均未服过兵役，也缺乏任何与国家安全和政策相关的学术或政策背景，更没有做过任何能表明他们具备这两个领域专业知识的事情。我们已经知道，至少有一起马斯克因无知而被他国利用的案例。
An exception for a contractor who is also a defense expert might make sense, but Musk and Luckey have no experience with national security or warfare. Neither has served in the military, possesses any academic or policy track record on national security or done anything to indicate expertise in either area. We already know of at least one instance in which Musk’s ignorance was exploited by another country.
实际上，情况恰恰相反。拉基靠Oculus VR设备发了财，并于2014年以20亿美元的价格将其出售给Facebook，随后在2017年创办了Anduril公司。在去年接受《60分钟》节目采访时，他声称：“我们需要从‘世界警察’转变为‘世界武器商店’。”尽管拉基可能对向更多客户销售产品感到兴奋，但向美国对手提供更先进的武器违背了美国的国家利益，而且向冲突地区引入更多武器有时反而会使局势恶化。
If anything, the opposite. Luckey made his money off the Oculus VR set, which he sold to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and then started Anduril in 2017. In a “60 Minutes” interview last year, he argued that “we need to transition from being the world police to being the world gun store.”While Luckey might have been excited at the possibility of selling to more customers. sending more advanced weapons to America’s adversaries is against U.S. national interest, and introducing more weapons into conflict zones sometimes makes things worse.
马斯克在战争和国际关系问题上的公开言论既充满自信，又荒谬可笑。例如，他曾多次批评隐形飞机，称其在地面上用肉眼摄像头就能被看到。但这完全误解了隐形技术的核心：如果敌人无法通过雷达追踪飞机，就无法对其发动攻击。而且隐形飞机的速度极快，通常等有人看到它时，它早已投掷完武器。2026年9月3日 / 08:38我们已经知道至少有一个案例，马斯克的无知被另一个国家所利用。
Musk’s public pronouncements on war and international relations are as confident as they are wrong-headed. For instance, he has repeatedly criticized stealth aircraft as spottable from the ground with visual cameras. But this misses the point of stealth technology: If enemies can’t track a plane by radar, they can’t target it. And stealthy planes are so fast that usually, by the time anyone can see them, they’ve already fired their payload. September 3, 2026 / 08:38 We already know of at least one instance in which Musk’s ignorance was exploited by another country.
2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，马斯克介入，切断了乌克兰一批海上无人机前往克里米亚海岸攻击俄罗斯舰船的星链卫星信号。根据沃尔特·艾萨克森所著的马斯克传记，他当时担心对克里米亚发动攻击会引发核战争，因为俄罗斯驻美国大使曾这样告诉过他。
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Musk intervened to turn off Starlink satellite access for a group of Ukrainian sea drones heading to strike Russian ships off the coast of Crimea. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, he fretted that an attack on Crimea would cause nuclear war because the Russian ambassador to the U.S. told him so .
除了未能理解这位外交官言论背后的明显动机，马斯克还未能意识到，屈服于核讹诈只会助长更多类似行为，而且乌克兰领土上的自卫行动与对莫斯科构成生存威胁的情况截然不同。在那次行动失败后不久，乌克兰采用了其他方法袭击了克里米亚上的一个俄罗斯目标，而俄罗斯并未因此发动核武器。马斯克从未承认这一错误。
In addition to missing the obvious motivations for the diplomat’s claim, Musk failed to grasp that giving into nuclear extortion encourages more of it, and that self-defense on Ukrainian territory is dramatically different from an existential threat to Moscow. Shortly after that aborted operation, Ukraine used different methods to hit a Russian target on Crimea , and Russia did not launch nuclear weapons in response. Musk has never acknowledged that error.
据彭博社报道，“民主党人正将焦点对准五角大楼和国防承包商，为审查特朗普政府中潜在的利益冲突做准备。”
Already, Bloomberg reports that “Democrats are zeroing in on the Pentagon and defense contractors as they prepare to scrutinize potential conflicts of interest in the Trump administration.”
由于五角大楼经常基于现有项目或在其基础上进行扩展，像“子午线计划”这样的举措会将马斯克和拉基这样的寡头进一步嵌入美国国防体系。将这些人物从幕后请出来是一项艰巨的任务，但并非不可能。
Because the Pentagon often builds upon or attaches to what is already at hand, initiatives such as Project Meridian embed oligarchs like Musk and Luckey further into the U.S. defense architecture. Getting these figures out of the proverbial woodwork is a difficult task, but not impossible.
至少，他们的影响力可以被大幅削弱。简而言之，应审查与这些公司签订的合同，终止任何通过腐败手段获得的合同，并以国家安全为由评估其余合同。彭博社已经报道称：“民主党人正将目光聚焦于五角大楼和国防承包商，为审查特朗普政府中潜在的利益冲突做准备。”在某些情况下，由于缺乏现成的替代方案（例如星链的卫星互联网）以及履行合同的法律义务，相关决策可能会变得复杂。但无论需要多长时间，下一任总统都应立即启动这项工作，这既符合美国利益，也符合盟友利益。
At a minimum, their influence can be significantly reduced. The short answer is to review contracts with their companies, terminate any that were secured corruptly and evaluate the rest on national security grounds. Already, Bloomberg reports that “Democrats are zeroing in on the Pentagon and defense contractors as they prepare to scrutinize potential conflicts of interest in the Trump administration.”In some cases, decisions may be complicated by a lack of ready replacements (e.g. Starlink’s satellite internet) and legal obligations to fulfill a contract. But however long it takes, the next president should begin this project immediately, in both American and allied interests.
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