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AI-Waged War: The “Silent Quds” Operation That Redefined Modern Warfare
On March 1, 2026, news broke around the world that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in a targeted strike. What makes this event historic is not just the political earthquake it sent across the Middle East, but how it was carried out: this was not a traditional military operation driven by human commanders step-by-step, but a war campaign largely designed, coordinated, and executed by artificial intelligence. In just 11 minutes and 23 seconds, the United States completed a precision assassination with zero American casualties and zero collateral damage—a milestone that marks AI’s first full-scale, high-stakes entry into real-world combat. Codenamed “Silent Quds”, the operation seemed surprisingly…
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AI and the Art of Warfare: How Military Applications of AI are Revolutionizing Combat
War, War never changes. This is a famous line in the role-playing game “Fallout” series, “War, war will never change.” Since the dawn of humanity, we have pursued with greatest passion the most efficient means of destroying other humans. Engels had a prophecy: “Once technological progress can be used for military purposes and has been used for military purposes, they will immediately almost forcefully, and often against the commander’s will, cause changes or even revolutions in the way of fighting.” As one of the most important technological breakthroughs of this era, AI cannot escape this curse. Today, more than two months have passed since the big AI discussion triggered by…
