The Next War Has No Name

No one uses "justice", "liberation" or "defending the country" to name wars anymore. There were no speeches declaring war, no parades of flags, no trenches to distinguish friend from foe. It begins with a signal outage, a no-man's land out of control, a firing that requires no human nod. Soldiers identify their compatriots in drone swarms, civilians distinguish between friends and foes in the fog of information, and generals lose the right to make decisions in the algorithmic countdown. This is not a decisive battle between countries, nor a battle between ideologies. It is civilization that quietly destroys itself in a highly sophisticated weapons network. When war no longer needs declarations, flags and reasons, then it does not even deserve a name. We can't help but think, what exactly has the rapid development of science and technology brought about?