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"What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Although it sounds like science fiction, the technology to create weapons that could hunt and destroy targets on their own already exists. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in emerging weapons technologies, draws on incisive research and firsthand experience to explore how increasingly autonomous weapons are changing warfare. This far-ranging investigation examines the emergence...
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• New introduction reflects upon the events of September 11, 2001
Highly acclaimed military strategist and writer Ralph Peters challenges America's defense establishment and national leadership with startling insights and no-holds-barred criticism. His radical assessment of the future of conflict and the kinds of enemies we will face has already excited international controversy and influenced policy. Peters identifies a 'new warrior class' and...
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In the no-holds-barred tradition that has won him so many fans across the nation and around the world, best-selling author and strategist Ralph Peters confronts the crucial security issues of our time, and the troubled times to come. With his trademark clarity and force, Peters argues that we have left behind the Age of Ideologies to enter a violent period in which ethnicity and religion-blood and faith-will continue to be the source of ferocious...
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The rapid rise in Russia's power over the course of the last ten years has been matched by the lack of diplomacy displayed by its president, Vladimir Putin. If we continue to ignore it, we remain on a path for nuclear war and we do so at our own peril. Former deputy commander of NATO General Sir Richard Shirreff speaks out in this call to arms, warning allied powers and the world at large that we risk nuclear conflict if we fail to confront Russia's...
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