AI is going to fundamentally transform how nations wage far. By failing to address it, the defence review leaves Australia unprepared for the future of war.
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Western society has become strangely unaware of the horrors of modern war, says an expert.
Policies that reduce poverty, inequality and socioeconomic insecurity lower the incentive to engage in or tolerate terrorism.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine illustrates, the use of lethal automated weapons, or LAWS, can always be justified. Their ability to desensitize their users from the act of killing, however, shouldn’t be.
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it is important to reflect on the use of war footage in media and the ethical questions around the use of footage depicting human death.
Chemical weapons and toxins are still being used in current wars. Without action, ecosystems and people are at risk.
If the Nord Stream attacks were an act of sabotage, this shows how energy infrastructure can be strategically targeted as an act of ‘hybrid warfare’.
A military strategist breaks down how a smaller Ukrainian army has successfully taken back swaths of land from the Russians in the country’s northeast.
As Ukraine retakes parts of its northeastern region from Russia, the Kremlin continues to increasingly look to private military companies to fill in military power gaps.
Since antiquity people have harnessed sound as a weapon, and the practice continues – in new high-tech ways – today.
A largely forgotten incursion behind the Iron Curtain had reverberations in both countries
Ukrainian fighters are utilizing a maze of tunnels in Mariupol and other key cities. The use of the underground in conflict has a rich history.
In a world where co-operation has given way to competition and conflict, how will Canada approach the prospect of war?
Cyberattacks can be devastating, just not on the battlefield, according to researchers who looked at 10 years of armed conflicts around the world.
Seizing Kharkiv or Kyiv is going to take time and heavy use of artillery— called ‘the God of War’ by Joseph Stalin — if it happens at all.
Handheld missiles help defend against tanks and warplanes. That makes them desirable for Ukraine to receive and easier for other countries to provide.
The declining defence budget has eroded the operating and capital expenditure of the military, leaving insufficient funds for the replacement of equipment, maintenance, and infrastructure.
From jamming satellite signals to spreading disinformation, Russia’s military has sophisticated technologies it’s bringing to the battlefield in Ukraine.
Sci-fi nightmares of a robot apocalypse aside, autonomous weapons are a very real threat to humanity. An expert on the weapons explains how the emerging arms race could be humanity’s last.
Sci-fi nightmares of a robot apocalypse aside, autonomous weapons are a very real threat to humanity. An expert on the weapons explains how the emerging arms race could be humanity’s last.
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University
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PhD, National Security College, Australian National University
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Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of English, Macalester College
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Armed Politics, Marine Corps University
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Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
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Professor (Emeritus) of Environmental Toxicology, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor in Politics, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Cultural Evolution, University of Exeter
