The Anthropic-Pentagon dispute isn't a political story. It's a case study in what happens when frontier AI reaches high-stakes operations without a governance mechanism — and everyone improvises.

Your AI policy isn’t governance. It’s a suggestion with a signature line. Here’s why architecture beats documentation, and what the Governance Spine looks like in practice.

Most governance programs fail not because they lack policies, but because they confuse documentation with control. The shift from policies to mechanisms is the difference between governance theater and defensible outcomes.