War
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When historians look at this period, they're going to conclude that we're in a different type of revolution: a revolution in war, like the invention of the atomic bomb.
That is, every previous revolution in war, be it the machine gun, be it the atomic bomb, was about a system that either shot faster, went further, had a bigger boom.
Another way of putting this is that mankind's 5,000-year-old monopoly on the fighting of
war
is breaking down in our very lifetime.
So the first is that the future of war, even a robotics one, is not going to be purely an American one.
It's the same thing in
war.
Or another way of thinking about this is, what does it mean to go to
war
increasingly with soldiers whose hardware is made in China and software is written in India?
That raises another wrinkle when it comes to
war
and conflict.
During the
war
between Israel, a state, and Hezbollah, a non-state actor, the non-state actor flew four different drones against Israel.
We don't have declarations of
war
anymore.
We don't buy
war
bonds anymore.
And now we have the fact that we're converting more and more of our American soldiers that we would send into harm's way into machines, and so we may take those already lowering bars to
war
and drop them to the ground.
But the future of
war
is also going to be a YouTube
war.
So they don't just delink the public: they reshape its relationship with
war.
It could be building connections between the home front and the
war
front as never before.
They call it
war
porn.
This ability to watch more but experience less creates a wrinkle in the public's relationship with
war.
Now the irony of all this is that while the future of
war
may involve more and more machines, it's our human psychology that's driving all of this, it's our human failings that are leading to these wars.
So one example of this that has big resonance in the policy realm is how this plays out on our very real
war
of ideas that we're fighting against radical groups.
So one of the people that I met was a senior Bush Administration official, who had this to say about our unmanning of war: "It plays to our strength.
The future of
war
also is featuring a new type of warrior, and it's actually redefining the experience of going to
war.
"You're going to
war
for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants, and then you get in the car and you drive home and within 20 minutes, you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework."
But some have worries that this disconnection will lead to something else, that it might make the contemplation of
war
crimes a lot easier when you have this distance.
So much of what you're hearing from me is that there's another side to technologic revolutions, and that it's shaping our present and maybe will shape our future of
war.
The fog of
war
isn't being lifted.
Well, what are "oops" moments with robots in
war?
We have new wrinkles in the laws of
war
and accountability.
And so you have this question: what does this lead to issues like
war
crimes?
And so we have this question to figure out: How do we catch up our 20th century laws of war, that are so old right now that they could qualify for Medicare, to these 21st century technologies?
And so, in conclusion, I've talked about what seems the future of war, but notice that I've only used real world examples and you've only seen real world pictures and videos.
Are we going to let the fact that what's unveiling itself right now in
war
sounds like science fiction and therefore keeps us in denial?
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