Larvatus Prodeo

The Defence White Paper spent considerable time discussing “cyber warfare” – the idea that in the future, wars would be in part fought by teams of hackers attempting to mess with the other side’s computers. Peter W. Singer argues in an op-ed today that the White Paper largely missed the real technological revolution coming to warfare – robotics:

An amazing revolution is ongoing around us, especially in war. The US military went into Iraq in 2003 with a handful of unmanned planes. There are now more than 7000 robotic drones in its inventory. In 2003, the invasion force had no ground robotics. Today there are roughly 12,000 on the ground. And the latest models of our robots give new meaning to the technology industry term “killer application”, as they now come with a lethal armoury of missiles, rockets, and machine-guns.

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