REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS - CounterStrikeMedia

SWARMS VS. GPS

11/23/2018

DARPA tests autonomous drone swarms against communications and GPS jamming
(UPI) DARPA has conducted a demonstration test series at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., showcasing its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment program for autonomous drone operations in the face of enemy jamming and area-denial efforts.

Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon's New AI Center
// Patrick Tucker
DOD rewards three-star with the lead on its new AI-development center.

THE FUTURE OF WAR: URBAN & CHINA USES AFRICA AND WEST ASIA FOR ITS OWN PROJECT MAVEN

10/31/2018

Cities pose huge challenges to military forces. The biggest might be just crossing the street.
(Modern War Institute at West Point) Many of the challenges of urban warfare are not new; nor, unfortunately, are the options soldiers have to confront these challenges. The U.S. Army has a long history of fighting in cities and its tactics, techniques, and procedures have been refined mostly from the hard lessons of World War II and the evolution of close-quarters combat that occurred following the failed 1972 rescue attempt during the Munich Olympics.

China is Exporting its Cyber Surveillance to African Countries
// Abdi Latif Dahir
Beijing has trained African officials on its sprawling system of censorship and surveillance.

Amy K. Lehr writes: The surveillance state in Xinjiang demonstrates the dark side of surveillance equipment, big data, and AI. It also indicates the speed at which China is developing and commercializing AI. China has a competitive advantage in this space because Chinese companies have access to a massive pool of data on which to train AI and fewer privacy laws to obey. – Center for Strategic and International Studies

DARPA, AI: THE PENTAGONS WISH TO TRAIN A SOLDIERS BRAIN & THE 3 C'S OF CYBER

10/15/2018

DARPA Wants Soldiers to Control Machines With Their Minds
By Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics: "DARPA is working on technology to read and write to the human brain. The focus isn't on mind control but rather machine control, allowing the human brain to directly send instructions to machines."

The Pentagon's Push to Program Soldiers' Brains
// Michael Joseph Gross
DARPA's developing capabilities still hover at or near a proof-of-concept stage. But that's close enough to have drawn investment from some of the world's richest corporations.

(Commentary) Quantum computing must be a national security priority
(Scientific American) For much of the last 70 years, the national security of the United States and its allies was in large part due to the technological superiority of their public and private sectors. Today, however, the future of that technological leadership is in doubt as nation-state rivals such as China are pursuing leadership positions in a next generation of technologies likely to redefine the geopolitical power structure.

The three C’s of cyber
(Fifth Domain) The U.S. elections systems are not the only form of critical infrastructure at risk from cyberattack. From the national power grid to our transportation and agricultural systems, a host of systems and networks must be secured and protected.

DARPA, Army Test Optionally Manned Helicopter (It’s Not A.I.)

DARPA’s Experimental Constellation
By Caleb Henry, SpaceNews: “The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded satellite operator Telesat a contract to study the use of commercial buses in the agency’s experimental low-Earth-orbit constellation program known as Blackjack.”

THE ISRAELI'S & NANO SATELLITES

10/4/2018

Israel Plans Anti-Missile Nano Satellite Constellation

SMALL NUCLEAR REACTORS FOR THE BATTLEFIELD

9/23/2018

Build Small Nuclear Reactors for Battlefield Power
// Andy Erickson
Los Alamos engineers are working on a tiny, steel-encased core regulated by physics, not pumps.

‘A Perfect Harmony Of Intense Violence’: Army Chief Milley On Future War

Pentagon Wants a Nuclear Reactor That Fits in a C-17
By Kyle Mizokami, Foxtrot Alpha: “The Department of Defense wants a portable nuclear reactor the size of a main battle tank that's capable of being lifted to overseas hot spots. The reactor would provide megawatts of power for U.S. forces, providing juice for everything from Xboxes to directed energy weapons."

Critics Roast the Army’s Battlefield Nuclear Reactor
By Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics: “You can see the logic behind the idea. The U.S. army envisions a kind of portable nuclear reactor that could move with units and provide all the power needs for a remote military bases, eliminating the need to transport lots of fuel and maintain long supply lines to keep a base fueled up."

DARPA & AI MOVING FORWARD: THE RUNNING ROBOT

9/10/2018

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot run and jump over obstacles
(C4ISRNET) The best way to appreciate the latest video of Boston Dynamics’ “Atlas” robot is with Survivor’s 1982 hit “Eye of the Tiger” blasting at the same time.

Artificial intelligence: a revolution in strategic affairs?

DARPA, Army & Team Platypus: Big Boosts For Artificial Intelligence
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Friday, September 7, 2018 4:39 PM

AI-Next: The 3rd WAVE
By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven: “In short, the AI-Next initiative, intended to evolve into a 3rd Wave, can explain the reason “why” it reached the conclusion it reached, something which offers a breakthrough level of computer-human interface, he added.”

East vs West in a race for AI supremacy
BY ALAN BOYD
China has invested heavily but still lags the US in key AI areas, a gap that could widen if its start-ups fail to embrace emerging industry standards

FULLY AUTONOMOUS IS NOW

9/7/2018

It's Now Possible To Telepathically Communicate with a Drone Swarm
// Patrick Tucker
DARPA's new research in brain-computer interfaces is allowing a pilot to control multiple simulated aircraft at once.

Inside the Pentagon's Plan to Make Computers 'Collaborative Partners'
// Jack Corrigan
DARPA's latest artificial intelligence project aims to bridge the gap between a machine that learns from data and one that adds new insights.

Fully autonomous ‘mobile intelligent entities’ coming to the battlefields of the future
(Defense News) A killer robot by any other name is far more palatable to the general public.

Can the US military still innovate quickly?
(Defense News) In the era of great power competition, the speed at which competing militaries are capable to innovate and evolve could determine who would win in a war. In light of the need for speed, military innovation experts at the Defense News Conference tackled the question of whether the Department of Defense can still move quickly to develop new technologies and capabilities.

Pentagon’s A&S reorganization should be completed a year ahead of time
(Defense News) Last December, Ellen Lord sat down with reporters and told them that the reorganization of the Pentagon’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics office would be a two-year process.

Options for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Five Eyes Alliance
By Dan Lee, Divergent Options: "Autonomous systems may provide the Five Eyes alliance an asymmetric advantage, or ‘offset’, to counter its strategic competitors that are on track to field larger and more technologically advanced military forces. "

THE EXOSKELETON RACE BETWEEN MOTHER RUSSIA & USA; NAVY RETROFITS THE F22 RAPTOR FOR F35

8/31/2018

SOCOM Tests Sarcos Exoskeleton (No, It Isn’t ‘Iron Man’) By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Monday, March 18, 2019 1:05 PM
Sorry, you won’t be punching aliens in the face. But loading 200-pound missiles onto a helicopter by yourself? That’s plenty useful.

Lockheed Pitching F-22/F-35 Hybrid to U.S. Air Force
// Marcus Weisgerber
With a Raptor's body and the JSF's brain, the new jet would aim to answer the next decade's Russian and Chinese threats.

Russia, US Are In a Military Exoskeleton Race
// Patrick Tucker
A look at the Iron Man-like dreams and power-starved realities of dueling technology programs.

ARMY MOVES TOWARD JOINT HYPERSONICS & MULTI-DOMAIN

8/28/2018

Army Warhead Is Key To Joint Hypersonics

Army to Unveil New 'Multi-Domain Operations' Strategy
By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven: “Senior Army strategists tell Warrior Maven this emerging strategic shift, which is expected to fully roll out at the upcoming annual Association of the U.S. Army Symposium, represents a key next step in the strategic evolution beyond the often discussed “Multi-Domain Battle” initiative.”

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: APPLICATIONS FOR WAR

8/10/2018

Synthetic Biology: The Premise and Peril of a New Dual-Use Technology by Al Mauroni

Synthetic Biology: An Emerging National Security Threat
By Joseph Zeman, RealClearDefense: "Synthetic biology is a widely misunderstood domain where its national security implications are severely underestimated."

US DELIVERS A NEW FORCE FIELD FOR ARMY VEHICLES & C.H.A.S.E. FOR CYBER HUNTING

8/6/2018

The 'Force Field' Technology Behind the Army's New Armor
By Allison Barrie, FOX News: “Astonishingly futuristic new tech creates a seemingly invisible, impenetrable, protective bubble around military armored vehicles making enemy attempts to fire at U.S. tanks pretty pointless – those rounds won’t hit the tank, they’ll explode mid-air.”

DARPA's New AI-Enabled 'Breakthrough' Cyberattack 'Hunting' Technology
By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven: “The program, called Cyber Hunting at Scale (CHASE), uses computer automation, advanced algorithms and a new caliber of processing speed to track large volumes of data in real-time, enabling human cyber hunters to find advanced attacks otherwise hidden or buried within massive amounts of incoming data.”

Our New Model Robot Armies
By Peter Layton, Small Wars Journal: “Robotic technologies seem set to disrupt warfare in at least two big ways: firstly, in improving productivity making armies equipment-centric; and secondly, in making defence dominant on the battlefield. In this revolution, the character of war will change and somewhat unexpectedly, possibly its nature.”

Why you should follow the 1-10-60 rule of cybersecurity
(Fifth Domain) One of the most common misconceptions of a data breach is that it takes the heaviest toll on the reputations of federal IT leaders, as they are responsible for protecting their agency against a breach.

DOLPHINS HUNT FOR MINES, GET FISH

8/1/2018

U.S. Navy Dolphins Hunt Mines During RIMPAC Exercise
(Popular Mechanics) The Dolphins locate deadly sea mines in return for a delicious fish treat.

RUSSIANS MOVE TOWARD 6TH GENERATION FIGHTER & EXAMINING AMERICA'S 4 RMA REVOLUTION

7/25/2018

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Readying the Naval Services for What’s Over the Horizon
By Robert P. Kozloski, CHIPS: “Experts claim that society is at the verge of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. This change presents both challenges and opportunities for the Department of the Navy, where warfighting considerations are rightfully privileged. The management aspects of technology are only a secondary consideration, but may have enormous consequences if they are not addressed.”

WAR IN MEGACITIES, HOW TO FIX THE ARMY & THE FUTURE OF WAR IN THE PACIFIC

7/23/2018

The missing link to preparing for military operations in megacities and dense urban areas
(Army Times) With the global trends of rapidly rising populations, urbanization, urban crime and political violence, military personnel will find themselves deploying into dense urban areas.

How to reshape the US military in 5 steps
(Defense News) The U.S. National Defense Strategy calls for increased investments to “restore warfighting readiness and field a more lethal force” capable of defeating aggression by the nation’s most capable adversary states. This is warranted: War gaming and analysis done at the think tank Rand point to troubling trends in the capabilities of U.S. and allied forces relative to those of key adversaries.

Fueling a future war in the Pacific
(War On The Rocks) It is striking how little U.S. logistics vulnerabilities have improved since WWII. Energy for military operations in the geographically vast Pacific region still primarily takes the form of military-grade fuels used by ships and aircraft. That fuel is still mostly stored in fuel terminals in known locations, many of which are in range of potential adversaries’ aircraft, submarines, and surface-to-surface missiles.

Accelerating multi-domain operations: evolution of an idea
(United States Military Academy) For ideas to have a lasting impact they must evolve.

PROJECT MAVEN & JEDI UP AND RUNNING: A.I. IN AFRICA

7/2/2018

Pentagon Hopes JEDI Contract Good for the Force
By Colin Clark, Breaking Defense: “Worth up to $10 billion over a decade, the Pentagon’s attempt to build its first true enterprise-wide cloud has sparked charges that the deal is designed to go straight to Amazon, who already supplies the CIA with its cloud services.

The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech To Troops
// Jack Corrigan
The Defense Department's research arm is working on a project that connects human operators' brains to the systems they're controlling—and vice versa.

China, Russia, and the US Are All Building Centers for Military AI
// Patrick Tucker
But their burgeoning approaches to state-sponsored research are divergent as the countries themselves.

General: Project Maven is just the beginning of the military’s use of AI
(DefenseOne) Air Combat Command chief invites tech firms to help build next-gen tools for the Pentagon. Also says dissent "is part of being an American."

Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO

An Assessment of the Likely Roles of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems
By Ali Crawford, Divergent Options: “Though a battlefield in the future will likely see autonomous decision-making technology as a norm, the transition between modern applications of artificial intelligence and potential applications will focus on incorporating human-machine teaming into existing frameworks.

Pentagon's Massive Multi-Domain AI Initiative
By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven: “The Pentagon is making a massive push to accelerate the application of AI to ships, tanks, aircraft, weapons.”

Creating the Conditions for Artificial Intelligence to Thrive in the Pentagon
By Richard Kuzma, War on the Rocks: “Data is the lifeblood of AI, and a crucial part of the infrastructure that will need to undergird these new technologies as the U.S. military adopts them.

ARMY FIELDS NANO DRONES

6/13/2018

Army to Acquire New Nano Drones
By Sonja Jordan, National Defense Magazine: “Soldiers are “looking for a covert, safe and immediately available situational awareness tool” that they can carry easily and use at the squad level, Aguirre said.

General: Project Maven Is Just the Beginning of the Military's Use of AI
// Marcus Weisgerber
Air Combat Command chief invites tech firms to help build next-gen tools for the Pentagon. Also says dissent "is part of being an American."

Special Ops Command To Hold Flyoff Of Tiny Drones

MALD-X Tested for Swarm EW
By Colin Clark, Breaking Defense: "More than three-and-half-years ago we ran an intriguing piece by Robert Haddick, a respected strategist and sometime consultant to Special Operations Command. Haddick proposed modifying a small drone called the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) so it could take on mobile missiles and perhaps search huge swaths of Chinese territory after being launched from B-52s.

Army to Control Future Battle Drones from U.S. Bases
By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven: “Thinking conceptually requires an openness of thought which historically might have been considered anathema to military hierarchy and good discipline."

THE F35 HITS THE ISRAELI SKY

5/26/2018

IRON MAN SUIT FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND

5/24/2018

SOCOM 'Iron Man Suit' Prototype by 2019
By Vivienne Machi, National Defense Magazine: ““We think the risk is worth the reward in terms of what we can do to improve the survivability of the individual operator.”

Lockheed, Army To Test Exoskeleton In December

CHINA'S REGIONAL AMBITIONS SHAPE INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY: HOW CAN INDIAN DEFENSE SHAPE BEIJING

5/11/2018

China’s regional ambitions reshaping India’s foreign policy
(Asia Times) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalistic government is taking a more proactive role in regional military cooperation than its predecessors – and the reason, according to Jeff M Smith of the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Centre, is that China has emerged as a regular actor in the Indian Ocean.

How Xi Jinping views the world
(Foreign Affairs) Much has been written on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarkable consolidation of political power since he took office five years ago. But an equally important question for the international community to consider is how Xi views the world—and what that means for how China will approach it. Because of the opacity of the Chinese political system, this is hard to answer with real certainty. But clear patterns are beginning to emerge.

China’s Play for Military Bases in the Eastern Indian Ocean
By David Brewster, the interpreter: “Indeed, the development of a Chinese naval and air base on Gan or elsewhere in the Maldives would be a game changer in the Indian Ocean, potentially threatening the U.S. military presence at Diego Garcia.”

China's Missiles in the South China Sea: A Threat of War
By Robert E. McCoy, Asia Times: “The South China Sea China has the potential to become a cauldron of conflict, and China is stoking the fire. By claiming perhaps as much as 90% of the South China Sea, Beijing is trampling on the rights of other nations in the region, nations whose Exclusion Economic Zones (EEZs) and national waters are being violated.”

ARMY'S FUTURES COMMAND TAKES SHAPE

5/8/2018

Permanent Evolution: SecArmy Esper On Futures Command (EXCLUSIVE)

What the Army’s Return to Large-scale Operations Means
for the Intelligence Warfighting Function
By Caroline Bechtel, Modern War Institute: “...the next war the United States fights will be far more dynamic and complex than the counterinsurgency and stability operations in which it has been heavily engaged for more than a decade and a half.”

DARPA multidomain program to focus on ‘kill webs’
(C4ISRNET) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is readying a new start this summer that will focus on cross domain battle management.

The U.S. Army’s future missile defense battle manager was put to the test across long distances to prove it’s capable of playing an integral role in multi domain operations, according to Northrop Grumman, the system’s developer. - Defense News

DARPA & HUMAN-MACHINES MATRIX; DEFENESE RELEASES ROBOTICS ROADMAP & MULTI-DOMAIN NEWS

3/20/2018

Infrastructure Key to Successful Multi-Domain Operations
By Amy McCullough, Air Force Magazine: “The Air Force needs to give industry and academia the “basic principles and basic vision” for how it wants to conduct multi-domain operations, and then let them work independently to find the right way to make that happen.”

Tactics and the Human Factor
By Connor Love & Jeff Hubler, Modern War Institute: “Gen. Robert Brown, commander of U.S. Army Pacific, echoed this sentiment in his 2014 Human Dimension white paper: “Material solutions alone will not provide the decisive edge against the complex array of rapidly adapting threats we face.” However, here we are, four years later, with no major changes in the way we develop, train, or enhance the cognitive and social abilities of our soldiers.”

The myth of the ‘game-changer’ weapon

DARPA wants to connect human brains and machines
(C4ISRNET) As unmanned platforms, cyber systems and human-machine partnering become more prevalent in 21st century war fighting, the effectiveness of combat units will be determined by how quickly information can be processed and transmitted between air-breathers and machines.

DARPA to use artificial intelligence to help commanders in ‘gray zone’ conflicts
(Military Times) Across the military branches, commanders are looking at how artificial intelligence can be used to fly better aerial routes, insert robotic vehicles into formations and process vast amounts of data in the information-dense battlefields of the near future.

The Pentagon's New Robotics Roadmap
By Connie Lee, National Defense Magazine: “The new unmanned systems roadmap will be the first that the department has released since 2013.”

In the move to multi-domain operations, what gets lost?
(C4ISRNET) The Army, in coordination with the Marine Corps, is developing new ways to fight in a “multi-domain” environment and to synchronize capabilities seamlessly across land, air, sea, space and cyber. The Air Force is pursuing a similar effort called multi-domain command and control.

What’s standing in the way of multidomain operations?
(Defense News) Mutlidomain operations are set to become standard for the U.S. armed services in the coming years, but technical, doctrinal and organizational hurdles remain.

Pentagon, Intel Agencies Set Up New AI Joint Office

Raytheon’s GPS Ground Station, OCX, Rights Itself?

Todd Probert writes: In order to fully connect and integrate the future force, the U.S. military must accelerate the adoption of autonomy, machine learning and artificial intelligence to increase the speed at which data is processed, information distributed and warfighting decisions made. - Defense One

Artificial Intelligence: Welcome to the Age of Disruptive Surprise
By Bruce E. Pease, The Cipher Brief: “I spent a career in intelligence learning the business of forecasting and warning, and I teach those things today. I learned that warning is easier than forecasting—usually, you warn of vulnerabilities and possibilities, but you forecast likelihoods.”

China Is Mining Data Directly From Workers' & Soldiers' Brains
By Stephen Chen, SCMP: “Concealed in regular safety helmets or uniform hats, these lightweight, wireless sensors constantly monitor the wearer’s brainwaves and stream the data to computers that use artificial intelligence algorithms to detect emotional spikes such as depression, anxiety or rage.”

China in race to overtake the US in AI warfare
(Asia Times) Beijing is pushing hard to integrate artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons – robotic arms capable of thinking and acting at the speed of light.

DARPA Chooses Teams for $1.5B Electronics Initiative
By Yasmin Tadjdeh, National Defense Magazine: “The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen a multitude of industry and academic teams to work on six programs under its lucrative Electronics Resurgence Initiative that includes upwards of $1.5 billion in funding over five years.”

Army Unveils Multi-Domain Concept; Joined At Hip With Air Force

WHAT HAPPENED TO NUKES & THE 3RD OFFSET

3/5/2018

Defense-wide: Nukes, missile defense, and the third offset
Mackenzie Eaglen | American Enterprise Institute

Army leader: ‘We’re going to be contested in every single domain’
(C4ISRNET) As adversaries make technological advancements, the U.S. military has had to adapt and change its concepts. For the Army, this has led to an emerging multi-domain battle concept.

WHAT SYRIA TEACHES ABOUT THE R.M.A. (REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS)

2/26/2018

Lessons learned from the air war against the Islamic State
(War On The Rocks) As debates continued at the Pentagon about hypersonic weapons, technology-based offset strategies, and next-generation bombers, things were happening in the skies over Syria.

Soldier Swarm:
New Ground Combat Tactics for the Era of Multi-Domain Battle
By Justin Lynch & Lauren Fish, Modern War Institute: “Swarming soldiers may offer the way to open the battlefield against an enemy focused on denying access, scrambling communications, and precisely targeting U.S. forces.

PENTAGON'S WAR CONCEPT: MULTI-DOMAIN BATTLE = RUSSIAN & CHINA; THE RETURN OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION

1/26/2018

Lockheed Takes Another Shot at Multi Domain War

Generals Worry US May Lose In Start Of Next War: Is Multi-Domain The Answer?

How multidomain battle is transforming US Army exercises
(Defense News) The U.S. Army in Europe has used the new and complex Joint Warfighting Assessment, or JWA, as an early opportunity to move the concept of multidomain battle from paper to theater to better understand how the service and its partners will fight together in the future

Toward one understanding of multiple domains
(C4ISRNET) Budget analysts claim that it’s all about the money, but often-maligned strategists know that the U.S. Department of Defense is actually ruled by words.

Raytheon Joins The Multi Domain Band

Raytheon Targets Army Multi-Domain Systems Like DeepStrike

Services Debate Multi-Domain: ‘Battle’ Or ‘Operations’

The Next War: The Growing Danger of Great-power Conflict
From The Economist: “IN THE past 25 years war has claimed too many lives. Yet even as civil and religious strife have raged in Syria, central Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, a devastating clash between the world's great powers has remained almost unimaginable. No longer."

Competition, Conflict, and Mental Models of War:
What You Need to Know About Multi-domain Battle
By Kelly McCoy, Modern War Institute: “Our doctrinal, albeit hopeful, understanding of competition today is best represented by the conflict continuum. This is the span of possibilities between peace and war, and essentially requires the US military to be proficient across the full range of military operations.”

Planning for a multi-domain battle is how the U.S. military will keep its superiority but doing so requires a new mindset in the Pentagon and out in the field, said the Air Force’s air combat commander. - USNI News

Multi-Domain Operations: The Case of British Field Marshal William Slim
By James D. Campbell, Strategy Bridge: “One of the most fruitful sources for examples illustrating the concepts behind multi-domain warfare is the World War II campaign history of the British Commonwealth 14th Army’s approach to combined operations within the Allied Southeast Asia Command in the China-Burma-India Theater.”

‘A Computer That Happens To Fly’: USAF, RAF Chiefs On Multi-Domain Future

Accelerating Multi-Domain Operations: Evolution of an Idea
By Stephen Townsend, Modern War Institute: “Multi-Domain Battle has a clear origin. Stemming from the idea that disruptive technologies will change the character of warfare, it recognizes that the way armies will fight and win wars will also change.

Lockheed Tees Up MDC2 Wargame; Sells AI C2 System

EXCLUSIVE: What Multi Domain C2 May Look Like: Raytheon’s Rick Yuse

What commanders will need in multidomain operations
(C4ISRNET) Mission command systems exist for the physical world, providing commanders a picture of the ground and air environment. However, the Army, as well as the joint force, is shifting to so-called multidomain operations, which opens up a need for new tools to fully understand the operating environment.

POLITICS OVER TECHNOLOGY: THE LIMITS TO DIGITAL AUTONOMY

12/14/2017

Could AI-Driven Info Warfare Be Democracy’s Achilles Heel?
(The Cipher Brief) Ripped out of the pages of science fiction novels, artificially intelligent, self-aware weapons systems could become a global existential threat, if harbingers of doom like Elon Musk are to be believed.

Drones in Counterterrorism: The Primacy of Politics Over Technology
By Asfandyar Mir, Strategy Bridge: “Even President Barack Obama –– whose Presidency was marked by a prolific use of drones for counterterrorism –– recognized drone use as “what looks like a pretty antiseptic way of disposing of [our] enemies” while also expressing concerns that, without sufficient Congressional oversight, “you [could] end up with a president who can carry on perpetual wars all over the world.””

Taking 'Team of Teams' to the Contested Littorals
By Jeffrey Cummings, Scott Cuomo, et al., War on the Rocks: “As success or failure relates to the future of unmanned systems, autonomy, and artificial intelligence, the Corps has one option if the former remains the goal: move out rapidly — eyes wide open — to responsibly make manned-unmanned teaming actual throughout our MAGTFs.”

The Strategic Implications of Non-State #WarBots
By Mark Jacobsen, Strategy Bridge: “Over the past year, a primitive type of WarBot has become a formidable battlefield weapon: the small unmanned aerial system. The threat materialized in October 2016 when a drone booby-trapped by the Islamic State killed two Kurdish soldiers. Within a few months, the Islamic State was flying tens of aerial bombardment missions each day, displayed the capability to drop grenades down the hatches of tanks, and reportedly flew up to a dozen aircraft at a time. The threat was so severe that the Mosul offensive nearly stalled.”

Fuzzy Thinking About Drones
By Jon Askonas & Colby Howard, War on the Rocks: “Initial operational test and evaluation, or IOT&E — the last milestone before full-rate production starts — won’t be able to begin until late 2018.”

WHAT REPLACES THE 3RD OFFSET

NEW MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES 2017

HOW ENGLAND REVERSED DECLINE

LIMITS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR WAR

OPTIMAL FRAMEWORK FOR SPECIAL OPERATORS & BETWEEN WAR-PEACE, THE GRAY ZONE

DEFENSE & SECURITY

HOW MULTI-DOMAIN BATTLE FIXES R.M.A.

BUDGET & FORCE STRUCTURE FOR THE LONG WAR

FOREIGN POLICY

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