Support grows for standing up an unconventional warfare command (November 2007)
An idea that wouldn’t die may be getting a new lease on life. Despite years of the idea being shot down at the highest levels, there are again growing calls from inside and outside the...BY SEAN D. NAYLOR
Risking critique (November 2007)
Openly critiquing one’s boss or his concepts is dicey. Such criticism carries risk and requires wisdom, as well as courage, to successfully transmit a controversial but important...BY COL. ALLEN BATSCHELET, MAJ. BARRY HAFER AND MAJ. MIKE RUNEY
Fast forward to the robot dilemma (November 2007)
Technological capabilities have already placed semiautonomous robots in a number of key military roles. New developments will expand their capabilities and applications. Who is morally...BY MAJ. DAVID F. BIGELOW
Counterproductive (November 2007)
For all the valuable roles that private military contractors are playing in Iraq, the end effect appears to have harmed, rather than helped, the counterinsurgency efforts of the U.S....By Peter W. Singer
Robots on the battlefield (November 2007)
In Afghanistan and Iraq, “battle bots” are spying, patrolling, securing and even “dying” in combat. Soldiers give their scout robots names, honorary...
Who decides: Man or machine? (November 2007)
When the industrial revolution of the early 19th century threatened the centuries-old caste of the English artisans by replacing man with machine, they rose up, allegedly led by a man named...BY MAJ. DANIEL L. DAVIS
Robots make war more survivable (November 2007)
No one can accurately predict what the robot-inhabited battlefield of the future will look like in five, 10 or 20 years. But we can look at the technical history of military equipment and...BY VICE ADM. (RET.) JOSEPH W. DYER
Flashpoint: Arms racing (November 2007)
Instability in Iraq, sectarian violence, Islamic extremism, ethnic rivalries, the rise of Iran and questions about America’s long-term commitment to the region are making for a Middle...By Peter Brookes
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