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kill chain en · NOUN
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The process of making an attack, from identifying the target to dispatching forces and destroying it.
Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology “shortens the kill chain” – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch.
2026 March 3, Robert Booth, Dan Milmo, “Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:[To Palantir CTO S. Sankar] And so Palantir treats the military as both a kill chain problem and a corporate supply chain problem? You’re working on both effectively?
2025 October 30, Ross Douthat, “What Palantir Sees”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2025:
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