Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved closer to the center of modern warfare, as evidenced by its role in the recent U.S.-Israeli military strike on Iran. No longer confined to serving as a purely analytical tool, AI functioned as an operational support layer that helped compress the time between intelligence gathering and battlefield execution. According to U.S. media reports, the U.S. military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude for “intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios” during the massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. Palantir’s Gotham data platform is said to have played a key role in pinpointing key military facilities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its leadership hideouts. In practice, when Palantir organized and summarized vast volumes of defense‑related data from satellites, signals intelligence and other classified sources, Claude then supported commanders by using that information to compare and analyze different operational scenarios. Experts say the episode underscores a broader trend: AI’s role in