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Air Force
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artificial intelligence warfare
Author_Chris Hables Gray
Automatic Special Mode
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Brilliant Pebbles
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cyber conflict analysis
cyborg soldier evolution
Danse Macabre
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Fred Ikle
future military technology trends
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ICBM
Laser Guided Bombs
LIC
Low Intensity Conflict
military technology studies
modem
NASM
National Defense Research Committee
NATO Plan
P Te
peace activism research
Postmodern War
Ration Ality
science and society ethics
Secretary Of State
Selva Lacandona
sun
tech
Top Secret
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UN
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vice Versa
War Time
weapon
weapons
World War III
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415166911
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Postmodern War poses an urgent challenge to the ways we conceptualize and actually wage war in our high technology age. Computerization and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in warfare spawning both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric which disguises their apocalyptic potential in catch phrases like smart weapons and bloodless combat. Postmodern War examines: * contemporary practices of war, defining and critiquing trendy military doctrines hidden behind phrases like Infowar and Cyberwar * the roles of those who manipulate high technology, those who are manipulated by it, and those who are increasingly merging with it * the role of peace activists and socially responsible scientists in countering dangerous assumptions made by a postmodern military. Far from opposing technological change, however, Gray finds new hopes for peace in the twenty-first century. Provocative and far-reaching in its scope, the book argues that postmodern war has left us poised between the most dreadful and most utopian of alternatives: we may eradicate either the human race or war itself.
