The artificial intelligence that commanded the armies

Another Use of DeepSeek Forget human generals with decades of battlefield experience, the back behind China's military planning is an artificial technology and it is capable of doing in 48 seconds what would take humans 48 hours, I'm talking about DeepSeek, the powerful Chinese model that has just been promoted to the role of digital tactical commander. By recreating 10,000 war scenarios almost instantly, the project led by Xi'an University of Technology is redefining what it means to think like a strategist and this raises a terrifying question: Are we entering the era of intelligent warfare or the beginning of something uncontrollable?

This must be the God of War. The military DeepSeek is a next-generation language model similar to the one we use for human interactions but programmed for battle simulations, risk analysis, troop movements and strategic scenarios, it works as a digital military brain, fed by millions of data from past conflicts, recognizes patterns, anticipates movements and reconstructs complex combat situations. The AI ​​not only calculates positions, but simulates results, strategic tests and identifies critical points before and even before a Roman finishes reading the map, the system uses an architecture based on knowledge maps of the battlefield where real and virtual data interact, it can decompose a conflict into smaller parts, generate alternatives, plan attacks and foresee consequences in real time. This is not only useful for the physical battlefield, DeepSeek is also capable of operating in cyber, electronic and space environments, which makes its performance global and security depends on who controls the code, the real risk is who defines the limits of this AI, or if it will have any limits in the future. The change here is profound. Military systems are no longer regulated by fixed rules to adopt adaptive intelligent agents capable of evolving with the scenario. AI can learn from errors, adjust strategies and even simulate human interactions as it predicts the emotional response of a rival commander. This is no longer statistical forecasting, it is a psychological game on a large computational scale.

China's counter game. China is not alone in this race The United States developed the Thunderforge, an AI-powered platform in collaboration with Scale AI, Microsoft and Google, The Jade C2 initiative is connecting all the sensors of the US military and a unified network creating a truly collective military. Other examples include Israel's Habsora system that uses AI to identify targets, Estonia's Sense software that anticipates military maneuvers up to 6 months in advance, and Germany's Helsing startup that develops autonomous underwater drones for naval surveillance. The United Nations discussed in May 2025 the creation of standards for the military use of AI, but the most powerful countries such as the United States, China and Russia clearly prefer to follow their own national guidelines without accepting mandatory global standards. The era of AI commanders has already begun. And do you trust one for military purposes or are we crossing too dangerous a line? I have the feeling that I have already seen this in a movie. Can you tell me which one it was?