Dan Caine

John Daniel Caine, known by his callsign ‘Razin’, is an American general who became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2025, making him the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. Before that appointment, he spent three years as associate director for military affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency, a role that sits at the intersection of intelligence and operational command.

As the Pentagon’s senior uniformed voice, Caine has pressed the defense industry to accept more financial and developmental risk when delivering emerging technology to the military — a posture that directly shapes how autonomy, AI, and robotics capabilities move from contractor labs into operational forces.