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Laurie R. Blank,
Eric Jensen,
Daphné Richemond-Barak,
Larry Lewis
| May 26, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
Technology, Humanity, and the End of War The role of new technologies in targeting—including GPS-guided weapons, battle networks, collateral damage estimation methodology (CDEM), cyber, drones, and autonomous weapons—has been the focus of extensive analysis by...
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Shane Reeves
| May 5, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Interpretation & Development
The Future Character of War and the Law In 2018, then Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley wrote that socio-economic, political, and technological changes will “revolutionize battlefields unlike anything since the integration of machine guns, tanks, and...
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R. Patrick Huston
| Apr 21, 2021 | AI, AoW Posts, Emerging Technologies, Topics
A Pacifist-General’s Plan to Win America’s Next War I’m not an absolute pacifist in the true sense of the word, but I’m about as close as you can get. I firmly believe in using military force only as a last resort. My view is shaped by my experience as both a soldier...
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Marten Zwanenburg
| Oct 21, 2020 | AoW Posts, Emerging Technologies, Topics
Biometrics on the Battlefield We use biometrics on a daily basis. You need only think of unlocking your phone with your fingerprint, using iris recognition to pass through airport security, or the biometrics integrated into your passport. Considering the...
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Aurel Sari
| Oct 1, 2020 | AoW Posts, Emerging Technologies, Space Law, Topics
NATO in Outer Space: A Domain Too Far? This post examines whether Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is applicable to armed attacks in outer space. NATO nations have recently recognized outer space as a new operational domain for the Alliance. Although the...
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Christopher J. Borgen
| Sep 10, 2020 | AoW Posts, Emerging Technologies, Space Law, Topics
Space Power, Space Force, and Space Law Space is a unique operational domain not only due to its physics, but also due to its legal regime. Although Space Power, the inaugural doctrinal manual of the U.S. Space Force, does not focus on legal issues in and of...