Striking power : how cyber, robots and space weapons change the rules for war / by Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Encounter Books, 2017Description: ix, 294 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781594038877
- 1594038872
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones, autonomous robots, and cyber weapons. These weapons can provide more precise, less destructive means to coerce opponents to stop WMD proliferation, clamp down on terrorism, or end humanitarian disasters. Efforts to constrain new military technologies are not only doomed, but dangerous. Most weapons in themselves are not good or evil; their morality turns on the motives and purposes for the war itself. These new weapons can send a strong message without cause death or severe personal injury, and as a result can make war less, rather than more, destructive.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We must think anew -- Returning to coercion -- Except a few things regarded as barbarous and cruel : the law of war before the 1970s -- How the law of war was hijacked -- The rise of the machines -- Cyber weapons -- Coercion in space.