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The Faceless War: How Artificial Intelligence Rewrote the Map of Power

A Small Wars Journal essay by Arizona State University argues that a handful of private technology firms now control the infrastructure underpinning both military power and public perception, citing a 2025 wargaming experiment at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the June 2025 Israel-Iran conflict's information war as evidence that AI has rewritten the map of power.

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Abstract A small number of private technology firms now build the infrastructure on which both military power and the public’s perception of reality depend. Drawing on a 2025 wargaming experiment at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and on the documented information war of the June 2025 Israel-Iran conflict, this essay argues that simulated combat and cognitive warfare …

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