Posted on May 22, 2017. Tags: defense, EU, Europe, France, Macron, NATO, Russia, Security, United States
With the recent nomination of his government, President Macron takes a chance to rejuvenate the idea of a European defence, an ambitious plan that collapsed when it failed to obtain the ratification in the French Parliament back in 1954. The European Defence Community emerged from the Pleven plan, proposed in 1950 by the French Prime […]
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Posted in Europe, European Union, France, World
Posted on December 19, 2017. Tags: defense, European Defense Spending, France, Germany, Military, military technology, Security
Europe is currently facing a fundamental shift in its approach to armaments procurement: cooperation both between countries and manufacturers in the development and production of armaments is considered the only way forward in the coming decades. With Germany and France representing the vanguard of the European defense industry, the fate of their KANT project symbolizes […]
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Posted in Europe, France, Germany, Security Issues, Technology, World
Posted on May 29, 2017. Tags: AI, airforce, artificial intelligence, defense, drones, F-35 lightning, future warfare, lasers, military power, military technology, navy, pentagon, peter singer, robots, swarming drones, tomorrows battlefield, US military
The US military is on the cusp of a fundamental transformation in how it operates on the battlefield due, in large part, to advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Although the use of AI by the military has drawn criticism — based mostly on concerns over robots potentially making life and death decisions — over the […]
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Posted in Security Issues, Technology, World