We Shot the Wrong People: Autonomous Weapons and the Case for Human Judgment
In August 2009, my Ranger platoon was twenty hours into a twenty-seven-hour firefight in the...
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In August 2009, my Ranger platoon was twenty hours into a twenty-seven-hour firefight in the...
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The modern battlefield is transparent. A soldier moving without understanding aerial observation,...
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The brigade commander watched the icons representing his lead battalion move toward the enemy’s...
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During a year on the staff of the ROK/US Combined Forces Command in 2023, I never asked an...
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For twenty months, Russia’s 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies ground toward Lyman, a small city...
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The increasing use of drones on the modern battlefield has sparked a great debate about their...
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At a federal technology summit earlier this year, a senior Pentagon official described a moment...
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