you are way to forgivining in how stupid the military is under current leadership.

This sounds like the same type of Israel apologism. "OK, well we kill a bunch of innocents, but they were related to all those evil people"

Israeli "Lavender" AI-assisted targeting was used with/in "Where's Daddy"[1] mode, which had several frameworks for using family to strike identified targets. One method is to liquidate the residence with maximum family members on prem, which had a high chance of drawing the target to the location where a second strike would have a high chance of lethality.

One aspect of Lavender that proved frustrating: the system identified so many targets that exasperated ground controllers eventually just ordered the equivalent of full on carpet bombing. When the whole building's showing up as red on your computer screen, I suppose that makes sense. From a particular perspective.

[1] I'm . . uh . . not making that up. That what is/was called. Undoubtedly it has a more digestible name now.

I didn’t read it as apologism, just a theory that it may have been done intentionally

People don't like thinking that a lot of good people can die from a mistake.

I don't think "They deliberately murdered 100 children to lure opposition military officers in for a second strike" is apologism.