AI systems will accelerate the pace of war.
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Wars are no longer fought in the trenches, they’re fought in the streets and civilians are on the frontline.
Mathematical models, video games and experiments with ants can all further our understanding of the dynamics of war.
Ideally, Russia would withdraw from Ukraine peacefully. Absent this, cluster munitions represent an effective way for Ukraine to defeat Russia’s invasion.
The US administration said that it had received ‘written assurances’ from Ukraine that it would use cluster bombs carefully. Nonetheless, the munition will provide an additional risk to civilians.
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.
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.
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Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of English, Macalester College
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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 Law, American University
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Political Studies, Mount Allison University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosecurity, Murdoch University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, 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 Ecology, The University of Western Australia
