{"id":202627,"date":"2026-04-06T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/fighting-at-machine-speed-ai-and-u-s-army-counterfire-under-the-law-of-war-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:20:14","slug":"fighting-at-machine-speed-ai-and-u-s-army-counterfire-under-the-law-of-war-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/fighting-at-machine-speed-ai-and-u-s-army-counterfire-under-the-law-of-war-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War \u2013 Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/fighting-machine-speed-ai-us-army-counterfire-law-war-part-ii\/\">Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War \u2013 Part II<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/fighting-machine-speed-ai-us-army-counterfire-law-war-part-ii\/\">https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/fighting-machine-speed-ai-us-army-counterfire-law-war-part-ii\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-06 10:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"lieber.westpoint.edu\">lieber.westpoint.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The article discusses legal considerations for incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into counterfire operations within the frameworks of the Department of Defense\u2019s Law of War Manual.<\/li>\n<li>It examines compliance with the law of war principles, particularly focusing on military necessity, humanity, distinction, and proportionality.<\/li>\n<li>The article highlights how AI systems, such as Maven Smart Systems (MSS), Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN), and Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE), enable more efficient data processing but raise legal questions.<\/li>\n<li>It emphasizes that while AI can enhance the speed and capacity of decision-making, it doesn\u2019t alter the commander&#8217;s responsibility for ensuring proportionality and distinction.<\/li>\n<li>The article outlines five recommendations for maintaining compliance with laws of war when using AI, including validating system inputs, appointing responsible personnel, providing specialized training, defining approval authority for weaponeering parameters, and conducting regular training cycles.<\/li>\n<li>Legal issues discussed include authority allocation, force selection, managing time-constrained judgments, and post-attack obligations.<\/li>\n<li>The integration of AI in counterfire needs robust procedures and validation to maintain legal standards, ensuring speed does not compromise accountability or precision in targeting decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/500h_q95.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-202627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202629,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202627\/revisions\/202629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}