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Not Your Grandfather’s Battlefield: Artificial Intelligence and the Military

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

Mediterranean Migration Reveals Flaws in Dublin Convention

Posted on February 21, 2015. Tags: Arab Spring, Asylum Seeker, boat, Brussels, consequences, Death, Dublin, Europe, Frontex, Hungary, Immigration, International Security, Iraq, Ireland, IS, ISIS, Italy, Middle East, Migration, navy, problem economy, Refugee, Sea, Syria, Terrorism, Threat, Triton, UN, UNHCR

John Donne famously reminded us that ‘no man is an island’. Likewise in today’s polycentric, ever-globalized, and interconnected world, no state can remain untouched by social, economic, or political influences from neighbouring states. As terrible as Islamic State has been for people living in Syria, Iraq and Libya, its effects on Europe are also increasingly being felt. […]

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Posted in Africa, Conflict, Economic Security, Europe, Germany, Humanitarian Intervention, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Refugees, Security Issues, Syria, Terrorism, UN, World