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China’s Military Is Now Using AI to Plan Strike Operations
Why it matters
The PLA's demonstrated deployment of an AI system that plans and coordinates strike operations across 100+ tactical units represents a qualitative leap in China's ability to execute rapid, large-scale coordinated military operations. This directly challenges Australia's maritime defence posture in the Indo-Pacific and undercuts the assumption that human-centred planning and legacy command structures can compete with AI-accelerated PLA decision-making in a crisis, particularly around Taiwan or the South China Sea.
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