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Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts Say
While the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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Paul Scharre on NPR: How Tech, Fitness Trackers Affect The Military
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Paul Scharre about the discovery that fitness trackers such as Fitbit are revealing "heat maps" of where U.S. military personnel are running. Sch...
By Paul Scharre
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Congress Must Protect Tech From DoD Bureaucracy, And Itself: Experts
UPDATED w/ Mahnken interview CAPITOL HILL: The US military is not ready for war against Russia or China, leading experts told the House Armed Services Committeethis morning. H...
By Paul Scharre
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The Strava Heat Map and the End of Secrets
A MODERN EQUIVALENT of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over the weekend, researchers and journalis...
By Paul Scharre
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Autonomous weapons are a game-changer
AI-empowered robots pose entirely new dangers, possibly of an existential kind...
By Paul Scharre
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Getting to grips with military robotics
PETER SINGER, AN expert on future warfare at the New America think-tank, is in no doubt. “What we have is a series of technologies that change the game. They’re not science fi...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Russia says it killed rebels behind swarm drone attack in Syria, but experts see more such strikes ahead
Russia's defense ministry said Friday it tracked down and killed the group of militants responsible for a recent coordinated drone attack against one of its bases in Syria. Ex...
By Paul Scharre
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Experts: US lag in tech, national security race against China could worsen under Trump
WASHINGTON — In a sobering reminder of a U.S. lag in the tech-based national security race against China, a panel of experts told a House committee that the country faces an u...
By Paul Scharre
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Don’t fear the robopocalypse: Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharresc
Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, has pretty good credentials when it comes to autonomous weapons. If you’ve ever heard of Directive 300...
By Paul Scharre
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Tighten Monitoring Of Chinese Investments, Experts Tell HASC
WASHINGTON: As China forges ahead trying to grab the head of the technology table by throwing money, policy and people at quantum computing and artificial intelligence, the U...
By Paul Scharre
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The Pentagon will arm drones in Niger, boosting the number of U.S. troops there
The Pentagon gained approval from the Nigerien government to fly armed drones out of Niamey, Niger’s capital, a State Department official said Friday, an effort that will put ...
By Paul Scharre
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How the Pentagon is preparing for the coming drone wars
More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device...
By Paul Scharre
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Legal Limbo Leaves Killer Robots Off-Leash
The UN’s Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) met last week to discuss lethal autonomous weapons systems. But while most member states ...
By Paul Scharre
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Industry Developing New Social Media Simulation Tools for Military Analysts
As Black Hawk helicopters transported Navy SEALs to Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011, an IT consultant working late into the evening heard the spinn...
By Paul Scharre
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Russia to the United Nations: Don’t Try to Stop Us From Building Killer Robots
Arms control advocates had reason for hope when scores of countries met at the United Nations in Geneva last week to discuss the future of lethal autonomous weapons systems, o...
By Paul Scharre
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Chinese drones may soon swarm the market — and that could be very bad for the US
China showed off some of its latest drone models and projects at this year's Dubai Airshow and it looks like many spectators were interested. China has seen a dramatic increas...
By Paul Scharre
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The US Shot Down a Mysterious Enemy Drone Over Syria
A US Air Force F-15 jet fighter has shot down a large, armed drone that attacked pro-US forces near At Tanf, a strategic town in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq. ...
By Paul Scharre
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Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, Russia
AUSA: American military leaders talk how artificial intelligence will change the face of war, but the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) actually in development are much more mod...
By Paul Scharre
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UAS are everywhere, and it takes all types of technology to defeat them
The drone buzzed over U.S. ground troops in southern Syria. It was big, about the size of a Predator, and it was armed. Without warning, it fired. The munition “hit dirt,” a P...
By Paul Scharre
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Army Prepares for Complex, Lethal Battlefields of the Future
Tomorrow’s battlefields will be wrought with new adversaries, challenges and technologies, military leaders and experts have said.In a recently released report, “The Operation...
By Paul Scharre