Future Wars: Technology and New Global Conflicts
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In the globalized information age of the 21st century, the power of science and technology has given a completely new look to future wars. Technology has changed the dimension of war: war does not only occur on the front lines of confrontation between two armies, and is not just a collision of flesh and blood between soldiers on both sides; it also occurs in the fields of the global Internet, transnational trade, and scientific research, involving programmers, financial experts, and private company employees in the rear. Technology has changed the efficiency of war: new drones and long-range missiles have been put on the battlefield, comprehensively increasing the speed of killing; metacomputing and big data are actually used for monitoring, allowing the military to respond to threats more skillfully; automated systems and robots replace soldiers in making judgments, minimizing the risk of combat errors. But technology also poses challenges to the military, government, media and ordinary people: The scope of war is expanding day by day. Who can guarantee the safety and privacy of civilians? If computers replace humans in decision-making, do the soldiers responsible for executing instructions bear moral responsibility? Faced with the rapid development of lethal weapons, how do national leaders balance the trade-off between the arms race and the needs of security and defense? Former U. S. Air Force Major General Robert Latif, with many years of first-hand experience in defense intelligence work, re-examines the impact of technological change on the global battlefield as countries around the world continue to pursue technologically powerful nations and military forces, and also warns of crises in humanity and morality.
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