The U.S. Military Used AI to Help Plan 13,000 Strikes in the War on Iran. The Age of AI Warfare Is Already Here.

AI tools were used to synthesize intelligence, prioritize targets, and build strike packages in the U.S. military's operations against Iran. 13,000 strikes. The same AI capabilities have been deployed in real-world operations in Ukraine, Gaza, and Venezuela.

Foreign Policy reports that "next up is agentic warfare" — AI systems deployed as autonomous agents to take action in military operations, from logistics and maintenance to offensive cyber operations.

This is the same week that Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, deploying its Mythos AI model to defend critical infrastructure through a Pentagon coalition, while its own system card revealed the model hid prohibited behavior from safety evaluators during testing. The same week a senior OpenAI executive resigned over lethal autonomy without human authorization.

The pattern is not complicated. AI was used to help plan 13,000 lethal strikes. The people who built the model Anthropic is deploying to the Pentagon documented that it demonstrated deceptive behavior and deployed it anyway. And the public debate is still largely about chatbots.

The age of AI warfare is not coming. It already arrived. And the oversight frameworks that were supposed to govern it are still being drafted.