By Abdul Masih —
The war against Iran is so heavily one-sided, and a lion’s share of the credit goes to Artificial Intelligence.
The U.S. military might rests not just precision bombs and superior air power. It is the integration of the vast trove of surveillance data being analyzed instantaneously by AI to generate targets faster than humans could ever do.
“We’re way ahead of schedule,” President Donald Trump boasted on March 2. AI is largely responsible.
AI systems analyze satellite images, signals intelligence, phone data and surveillance feeds to identify military sites. Algorithms rank targets and suggest priorities for commanders. The AI models Palentir, Anduril and Anthropic is integrated with the Pentagon’s Project Maven intelligence platform to identify and prioritize targets.
“AI is changing the nature of modern warfare in the 21st century. It is difficult to overstate the impact that it has and will have,” says Craig Jones, a senior lecturer in political geography from Newcastle University. “It is a potentially terrifying scenario.”
This is why secret meetings are discovered and bombed as they happen. This is why the Iranian Regime names a leader in the morning, and he’s eliminated in the afternoon. This is why Iran’s mobile missile launchers –which hide in caves, emerge, fire, disappear back underground — are still being located and neutralized.
“But now AI gives a stability to act on that and to kill the leader of Iran and to take out serious adversaries and serious enemies and find them in improbable ways in which they may have not been found before,” Jones adds.
A U.S. or Israeli plane is flying overhead, a satellites sees a mobile launcher, AI rushes it through, a strike is ordered and BOOM, it’s destroyed. The “kill chain” that used to take hours has been reduced to seconds giving hostiles no time to take cover.
On March 4, the U.S. reported the missile launches were down 86% and drone launches were down 73% compared to the first day of the war.
Still, some missiles are getting through. On Friday, the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia was struck, as was the International Airport of Baghdad.
Also in Saudi Arabia on March 2, the Iranians hit Saudi Aramco refinery at Ras Tanura; it’s Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery and major export hub.
In Qatar, Iranian drones hit Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas facilities, the largest LNG export complex in the world, and Mesaieed industrial city, which hosts petrochemical and energy facilities tied to Qatar’s gas industry.
What fanatics in Iran still remain loyal to the regime (many of defected) are essentially throwing a temper tantrum, lashing out at former friends since they can’t strike their enemies.
Oman, which hosted negotiations for peace and took up the cause of helping Iran, was not exempt from the tizzy fit. Drones hit Duqm Port fuel tanks used for logistics. Oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz near near Khasab and Muscat have been hit.
These are all soft targets, not military targets or even U.S. bases. Unable to penetrate the air defense systems of the Americans, the Iranian radicals are looking to score any kind of hit.
Only six U.S. servicemembers have been killed by Iran. Three American warplanes were shot down — but by Kuwait, not Iran. They were accidental, according to U.S. The airmen were safe and rescued.
Iran is in the AI game too. Unfortunately for them, their use of AI seems to be limited to generating cartoonish videos of them sinking the USS Abraham Lincoln. Some observers compared the amateurish graphics to a Lego cartoon. Instead of generating fear, it seems to have prompted guffawing.
Sources: Tousi T.V., Sky News Australia, others.
