Pentagon investigators found that intelligence gaps, outdated imagery and
excessive reliance on AI contributed to the Feb. 28 strike on a primary school
in Minab, Iran, that killed many children. The site had been labeled a military
facility years earlier, but commercial satellite images as early as 2018 showed
it had been repurposed — including colorful walls and a soccer field; U.S.
analysts recorded those changes in 2019 in a system not linked to the main
military intelligence database. Investigators also found parts of U.S. Central
Command over-relied on Palantir’s Maven battlefield-intelligence platform and
expected it to flag outdated or inconsistent foundational intelligence on
potential targets.
