Autonomous Weapon Systems, Asymmetrical Warfare, and Myth

Autonomous Weapon Systems, the Frame Problem, and Computer Security

Unlike human soldiers, autonomous weapon systems (AWS) are unaffected by psychological factors that would cause them to act outside the chain of command. This is a compelling moral justification for their development and eventual deployment in war. To achieve this level of sophistication, the software that runs AWS will have to first solve two problems: the frame problem and the representation ...

The State’s Struggle to Master Asymmetrical Warfare

uniform, utilizes any tactic, and swears its allegiance not to a government, but an ideology. However, governmental entity since the city-state of Athens fought Melos over two thousand years ago. This enigma is asymmetrical warfare. The only way to truly study asymmetrical warfare is to take into account its long history. Thus, measure the relationship between the duration of asymmetrical war a...

Countering Emerging Threats Technologies for Asymmetrical Warfare ,

On Cyber Warfare Command and Control Systems

As Defense agencies and services expand their reliance on computer networks, risk to information availability and integrity increases. It is no longer adequate to rely solely on the now traditional defense-in-depth strategy. We must recognize that we are engaged in a form of warfare, cyber warfare, and deploy our resources using the strategy and tactics of warfare. Most Defense organizations ha...

Thought Systems and Network Centric Warfare

The notion of Thought Warfare and Anti-Warfare (TWAW) has been introduced in earlier work as a way of thinking about future military conflict and its avoidance. TWAW involves the dynamic interaction of allies’ and adversaries’ Thought Systems. Current Thought Systems involve entities capable of cognition, emotion and volition typically (groups of) people interacting via networks of information ...