An excellent analysis of the automated bureaucratic machinery that is changing how decisions in war are made – and that got 175 children killed in Iran. «The United States military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed.» Closing that gap now means automating more and more steps along the «kill chain». «The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is […] what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir.

From Weekly Filet #568, in March 2026.