Outsourcing War to Machines
Outsourcing War to Machines

Author: Paul J. Springer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 144083086X

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Military robots are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted. This book covers the history of military robotics, analyzes their current employment, and examines the ramifications of their future utilization. Robotic systems are the future of military conflicts: their development is already revolutionizing the nature of human conflict-and eroding the standards of acceptable behavior in wartime. Written by a professor who teaches strategy and leadership for the U.S. Air Force, one of the global leaders in the development and utilization of military robots, this book both addresses the history of military robotics and discusses the troubling future ramifications of this game-changing technology. Organized both chronologically and thematically, the book's chapters describe the development and evolution of unmanned warfare; clarify the past, current, and future capabilities of military robotics; and offer a detailed and convincing argument that limits should be placed upon their development before it is too late. This standout work presents an eye-opening analysis that military personnel, civil servants, and academic instructors who teach military history, social policy, and ethics can ill afford to ignore, and will also provide the general public with information that will correct misconceptions about military robotics derived through popular culture and the news media.

Outsourcing War to Machines
Outsourcing War to Machines

Author: Paul J. Springer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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Military robots are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted. This book covers the history of military robotics, analyzes their current employment, and examines the ramifications of their future utilization. Robotic systems are the future of military conflicts: their development is already revolutionizing the nature of human conflict-and eroding the standards of acceptable behavior in wartime. Written by a professor who teaches strategy and leadership for the U.S. Air Force, one of the global leaders in the development and utilization of military robots, this book both addresses the history of military robotics and discusses the troubling future ramifications of this game-changing technology. Organized both chronologically and thematically, the book's chapters describe the development and evolution of unmanned warfare; clarify the past, current, and future capabilities of military robotics; and offer a detailed and convincing argument that limits should be placed upon their development before it is too late. This standout work presents an eye-opening analysis that military personnel, civil servants, and academic instructors who teach military history, social policy, and ethics can ill afford to ignore, and will also provide the general public with information that will correct misconceptions about military robotics derived through popular culture and the news media.

Outsourcing Death to Machines
Outsourcing Death to Machines

Author: 新世界 (Xīn 新世界 (Xīn Shìjiè)

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-02-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781796468854

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Outsourcing Death to Machines consists of 3 Volumes: Volume 1. Killer Robots Volume 2. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Gap Volume 3. The Battlefield Singularity The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) anticipates that weaponization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change the character of war on the battlefield, where humans can no longer keep pace with the speed and tempo of machine-led decisions during combat. This is a rough definition of the "Battlefield Singularity." The rapid development of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (Killer Robots) and advances in artificial intelligence will usher in a new stage of warfare. While America concentrates on developing weapons capable of winning the last war, the PLA believes the next war will be fought by algorithms and they are busy developing algorithms designed to win the next war. Whereas Americans look to AI as a new engine of economic development, China sees AI as necessary for the future "intelligentized" (智能化) warfare and pursues a superpower strategy by building "algorithm superiority" in warfare. While the U.S. military is ready to refight the last war, the 3rd Department of the PLA general staff, known as 3PLA, is also building a new-breed cyberforce to be what they describe as a "winning mechanism" for warfare in the cyberspace domain. Just like the "Bomber Gap" and the "Missile Gap" during the Cold War, the U.S. may be facing an "Artificial Intelligence Gap." Unlike the Cold War however, the U.S. can't simply send a spy plane or satellite over an adversary and count the number of bomber aircraft or missile silos. The cyberwarriors the U.S. military so far can't begin to compare with the 100,000 cyberwarriors China has already fielded. And, for those ethnicentrists in the U.S. that think the Chinese cyberwarriors are amateurs, you are sadly mistaken. The Chinese cyberwarriors are very good - and, they are getting better. AI will increase their cyber warfare capability by a factor of at least 10 in the next ten years. The eventual replacement of the "man-in-the-loop" with a "man-out-of-the-loop" strategy that automates modern warfare could usher in World War III in minutes. Volume 1 addresses the fielding of Killer Robots on the field of battle and the legal implications of their use today. Volume 2 discusses the "AI Gap" between the United States and China. Volume 3 is a discussion of the Battlefield Singularity and the policy changes that will be needed to avoid strategic surprise.

Outsourcing War and Peace
Outsourcing War and Peace

Author: Laura Anne Dickinson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0300144865

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This timely book describes the services that are now delivered by private contractors and the threat this trend poses to core public values of human rights, democratic accountability, and transparency. --

War Virtually
War Virtually

Author: Roberto J. González

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-04-23

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0520402170

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A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare. With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Future of Warfare
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Future of Warfare

Author: Kaushik Roy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-23

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1040016553

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This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures. In addition to developments in the USA, Britain, Russia and China, the volume also explores how different Asian and European countries are actively integrating AI into their military readiness. It studies the effect of AI and related technologies in training regimens and command structures. The book also covers the ethical and legal aspects of AI augmented warfare. The volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and researchers of military and strategic studies, defence studies, artificial intelligence and ethics.

Propaganda from the American Civil War
Propaganda from the American Civil War

Author: Paul J. Springer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1440864446

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Offering comprehensive coverage for those examining Civil War propaganda, this volume provides a broad analysis of efforts by both Union and Confederate sides to influence public opinion of America's deadliest conflict. This illuminating reference work contains excerpts from roughly 100 individual pieces of propaganda generated during the American Civil War in the North and the South, as well as contextual analysis to assist readers in understanding its utility, importance, and effect. It includes written arguments, staged photographs, and political cartoons, all of which were used to advance one side's objectives while undermining the enemy's. This helps readers to understand the underlying arguments of each side as well as the willingness of each to distort the truth for political, military, or economic advantage. This book is organized chronologically, allowing readers to understand how propaganda developed and expanded throughout the war. It includes a chapter dedicated to each of the war years (1861–1865), an antebellum chapter, and a postwar chapter. Each document comprised in the volume includes an analysis of the significance and effectiveness of the piece and guides readers to examine it with a critical eye. The original source documents remain in their original verbiage, including common spelling errors and other interesting aspects of 19th-century communication.

The War Machines
The War Machines

Author: Danny Hoffman

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0822350777

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Based on ethnographic research among militias in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor on battlefields and in dangerous unregulated industries.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies

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Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-02-15

Total Pages: 1625

ISBN-13: 3319743198

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This encyclopedia provides an authoritative guide intended for students of all levels of studies, offering multidisciplinary insight and analysis of over 500 headwords covering the main concepts of Security and Non-traditional Security, and their relation to other scholarly fields and aspects of real-world issues in the contemporary geopolitical world.