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Six quiet steps they etched in code Prioritize, assign, then pound Once it crawled through eight, nine systems Analysts moving data left to right Hand to hand across the morning Till Palantir collapsed it into one screen overnight Seven hundred forty three long minutes That's how long the first one took Twenty twenty, Fort Liberty Soldiers hunched above a decommissioned tank One AI scan, one human confirmation One HIMARS rocket found its mark They called it the first AI-enabled artillery strike They called it a good start Kill chain Left click right click left click Magically it becomes a detection Kill chain Stanley at the podium This is revolutionary Kill chain Eighty six seconds per decision One thousand strikes in twenty four hours Kill chain The time between found and dead Once was days Now it's ours The AI Asset Tasking Recommender Whispers the optimal bomber Murmurs the optimal munitions Drafts the operational order Within seconds Not hours Within seconds Not days days Craig Jones on Democracy Now You're reducing tens of thousands of hours Into seconds and minutes You're automating human-made targeting decisions In ways that open up All kinds of problematic questions Blue boxes trace the hospitals Blue boxes trace the schools Yellow boxes cage the targets That's how Maven draws the rules A wall stood thirteen long years Between a school and a compound The yellow box knew no difference One thousand strikes Eighty six seconds The blue box Was supposed to keep it safe Each step a small addition Computer vision, object detection Data fusion across sources LLM-powered target ranking Automated munitions pairing Automated legal review Each step reasonable in isolation The sum A fundamentally different system Nobody asked if it should Only if it could Identify Locate Filter Prioritize Computer vision, object detection Data fusion across sources LLM-powered target ranking Automated munitions pairing Automated legal review Each step reasonable in isolation The sum A fundamentally different system Nobody asked if it should Only if it could Identify Locate Filter Prioritize Assign Fire Left click Right click Revolutionary