InfoSwarms: Drone Swarms and Information Warfare
In: Parameters: the US Army War College quarterly, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 87-102
ISSN: 2158-2106
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In: Parameters: the US Army War College quarterly, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 87-102
ISSN: 2158-2106
Drone swarms, which can be used at sea, on land, in the air, and even in space, are fundamentally information-dependent weapons. No study to date has examined drone swarms in the context of information warfare writ large. This article explores the dependence of these swarms on information and the resultant connections with areas of information warfare—electronic, cyber, space, and psychological—drawing on open-source research and qualitative reasoning. Overall, the article offers insights into how this important emerging technology fits into the broader defense ecosystem and outlines practical approaches to strengthening related information warfare capabilities.
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In: European journal of risk regulation: EJRR ; at the intersection of global law, science and policy, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 760-778
ISSN: 2190-8249
AbstractMass-casualty terrorism and terrorism involving unconventional weapons have received extensive academic and policy attention, yet few academics have considered the broader question of whether such behaviours could pose a plausible risk to humanity's survival or continued flourishing. Despite several terrorist and other violent non-state actors having evinced an interest in causing existential harm to humanity, their ambition has historically vastly outweighed their capability. Nonetheless, three pathways to existential harm exist: existential attack, existential spoilers and systemic harm. Each pathway varies in its risk dynamics considerably. Although an existential attack is plausible, it would require extraordinary levels of terrorist capability. Conversely, modest terrorist capabilities might be sufficient to spoil risk mitigation measures or cause systemic harm, but such actions would only result in existential harm under highly contingent circumstances. Overall, we conclude that the likelihood of terrorism causing existential harm is extremely low, at least in the near to medium term, but it is theoretically possible for terrorists to intentionally destroy humanity.
In: Studies in conflict & terrorism, Band 43, Heft 5, S. 351-381
ISSN: 1057-610X
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ISSN: 1746-1766
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ISSN: 1521-0731
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ISSN: 1521-0731
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ISSN: 1556-1836