Is gentleness too much for us? Should gentleness be filed along with empathy We feel for someone else's child? Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise

"The US struck nearly 2,000 targets in the first 100 hours of the operation. That list was not generated on the fly but it was built months in advance. But managing, sequencing, and executing 2,000 targets simultaneously across multiple domains still requires algorithmic support that no human coordination chain can match unaided. More importantly: maintaining a database of 2,000+ target records and keeping every single one correctly classified is exactly the kind of task that gets delegated to automated systems..."