Pentagon's Iran Air War Revealed Unprecedented AI Targeting Reliance

What Operation Epic Fury established is not a precedent — it is a completed action that future policy must now account for. The Pentagon's own officials confirmed Maven Smart System's role in the Iran strikes, which means the human-on-the-loop debate has a data point it did not have before: a named operation, a named system, a named adversary. Lawmakers questioning guardrails are no longer debating a future they can shape. The enforcement template for meaningful human control was written in the air over Iran, and it will be cited in…