> I wonder what the alternative is in a case like this.
It seems obvious to me that the alternative would be a slower process for picking targets leading to fewer overall targets picked and the guarantee that a human conscience is involved in the process.
Or alternatively pressure from the top down on targeting specialists to get more and more targets selected resulting in less quality and effort spent on selecting targets and maybe leading to rubber-stamping proposed targets without adequate consideration. Which isn't to suggest that that would definitely make the AI better per se
It's an army too cowardly to have dismounted infantry protecting their tanks, so instead their conscripts burn alive in there when they get in contact with actual militants.
It's an army incompetent enough to recreate the rubble of Stalingrad to help its enemy.
How would they go about producing officers that could enact such pressure? How would they recognise the difference between a specialist and a charlatan whos family is good friends with the army rabbi?
It's well known that the IDF refuses to use dismounted infantry to protect their wagons, and that they've turned cities into rubble and given themselves some of the same kind of problems that the Nazis had in Stalingrad.
You'll also find interesting stories in israeli papers. Rabbis are important to the IDF because the state it is part of is based on religious convictions, and quite often there is no other justification for what they do.
It seems obvious to me that the alternative would be a slower process for picking targets leading to fewer overall targets picked and the guarantee that a human conscience is involved in the process.