HYPERWAR - How AI, Cyber and Data are Rewriting the Rules of Modern Conflict

By Jens Belner

The war began before the first missile flew.

At 03:44 on February 28, 2026, ninety million Iranians were cut off from each other and from the outside world. Not by bombs. By code. In ninety seconds, Iran's internet collapsed to four percent of normal capacity. Government systems failed. Military communications died. An entire nation was blind, deaf, and defenceless - and no missile had yet left its launch tube.

HYPERWAR is the story of a new kind of warfare - invisible, instantaneous, and driven by algorithms that move faster than human thought.

Drawing on the real events of the 2026 Iran conflict, AI strategist Jens Belner takes readers inside the technologies reshaping armed conflict at its foundations:

AI targeting systems that built Iran's complete target list in days - not months - by fusing satellite imagery, phone signals, social media, and financial data into intelligence of devastating precisionCyber first strikes that destroyed a nation's communications infrastructure before a single soldier knew a war had startedGPS spoofing operations that paralysed over 1,100 ships across the Gulf simultaneouslyAI-generated psychological operations targeting individual generals with personalised messages crafted from years of harvested intelligenceAutonomous drone swarms and the first operational use of laser air defence against mass saturation attacksThe coming quantum threat - why every encrypted message ever sent is being stored, waiting for a quantum computer to make it readable

But HYPERWAR is not just about what happened. It is about what comes next. About neural interfaces that let pilots control aircraft with thought alone. About AI arms races that no nation can win by outspending an opponent. About a legal system built for human soldiers that has no answer for weapons that select their own targets.

Who is responsible when the machine gets it wrong? Who decides when no one is at the wheel?

Written for the intelligent general reader - with the pace of a thriller and the depth of serious non-fiction - HYPERWAR is the essential guide to the war you didn't see, fought with weapons you didn't know existed.

Perfect for readers of Sandworm by Andy Greenberg, The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre, and The Precipice by Toby Ord.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS8LL72F
• ISBN13: 9798251661750
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"