Politics

Leinster, Murray. "Politics." Amazing Stories June 1932. For reprints see Internet Speculative Fiction Database at link.[1]

Novelette, possibly involving what we'd consider an AI ship; possibly.

Kyle Jones, Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange: "The innovation" of the "automatic rangefinders [...] allowed a ship's guns to be adjusted and fired immediately on the enemy after a single ranging salvo. Pacifists in the government wanted to accept onerous surrender terms, but the navy turned the war around by decimating the enemy fleet with the new technology."[2]

Discussed at least briefly in Science Fiction and Computing, which see.