kill chain

kill chain

English

Noun

kill chain (plural kill chains)

  1. (military) The process of making an attack, from identifying the target to dispatching forces and destroying it.
    • 2025 October 30, Ross Douthat, “What Palantir Sees”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 October 2025:
      [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?
    • 2026 March 3, Robert Booth, Dan Milmo, “Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      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.
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