Strauss Center National Security Law Fellow Megan Ezekannagha published an article with Lieber Institute at West Point’s Articles of War on “Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War.” Part I is available here and Part II is available here.

“Integrating AI into counterfire offers the Army a credible way to compress the sensor-to-shooter cycle against enemy artillery without departing from existing law of war requirements. Newly fielded and emerging AI systems do not change what the law demands; the guiding principles and governing rules remain intact.” Ezekannagha continues, “Properly employed, these systems can strengthen compliance by improving target validation, reducing uncertainty, and accelerating coordination in the precise places where modern counterfire tends to break down.”