Paul Scharre
Autore di Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
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A former U.S. Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Paul Scharre is the director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Time, Foreign Affairs, and Politico, and he appears mostra altro frequently on CNN, FOX News, NPR, MSNBC, and BBC. He lives in Virginia. mostra meno
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- 3.8
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I wont go into details here (title says it all :)) but author truly covers everything related to modern automated combat systems - from smart missiles to combat platforms (like AEGIS and anti aircraft systems and of course ubiquitous U(C)AVs) - starting from differentiating various systems and human role in them, role of AI (and thank God, author is realistic when it comes to general AI), plans and visions for developing the future war machines with everything coming from the horses mouth so to speak, opposition and reasons for opposition to development of autonomous war machines to legal implications and is it possible to ban development of autonomous war machines.
Some parts are straight out naive (like land-mine and cluster ammunition ban - land-mines are still used everywhere and cluster munitions are also used even by "responsible" parties (certain French shame incident related to delivery of cluster ammo in recent conflict shows this)) but in majority of text author is aware that constant mantra "but they might be doing it" will always cause the further development of more dangerous weapons. Unfortunately there is no way around this especially with weaponry that is not tested fully in combat (remember that gas is taboo now only because of effects of its use in WW1 where wind could disperse gas to friendly side in a matter of minutes - generally biological and chemical weapons have tendency to backfire). One thing annoyed me - constant talk about "responsible" armies (like US and Western armies) and "authoritarian" states (under quotes because these days this just means US and allies disapprove of given country, otherwise for example Arab countries would constantly be marked as such and shunned by same parties since the beginning of modern age) is kinda silly. As far as I know Agent Orange and various defoliants were used by "responsible" army and I have a feeling that families obliterated by UCAVs targeting assumed high-priority targets through the Middle East would not agree with that responsible attribute. Also would not you agree that sponsored secret bio chemical labs in certain countries do not show much responsibility.
Because lets be fair - every army fights to win and will use everything at its disposal to achieve victory. Everything else is side effect for analysts and theoreticians to build their academic careers and condemning something that is water under the bridge for at least a decade. And because of this autonomous weapons will arrive and remain on battlefields. Only thing that we can be grateful for is that these will be sturdy, relatively simple weapon systems with narrow intelligence for a specific action field for decades (if not centuries ahead). For no other reason than to alleviate the danger of loss of control.
For the above mentioned unnecessary political comments I take one star off.
Rest of the book is truly an excellent thorough analysis of current technological and application aspects of remotely controlled and autonomous combat systems and weapons. Considering the scope and level of information I think this might be one of the most complete (if not the most complete) book on the subject I have read.
Highly recommended.… (altro)