Big Picture / Human Society / Politics & Government / War

How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda in the future?

If AI can produce human-equivalent writing-on-demand, does the pen (truly) become mightier than the sword in terms of its propaganda potential?

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based hyperwar’s super-speed obsolete human intervention and control?

Should autonomous drones make the kill decision without a human in the loop? Should we ban autonomous nuclear weapons?

Will we need ai to defend against ai? Is that like an ai-dog chasing its ai-tail?

Should we consider Russia’s and China’s cyber-meddling in our affairs an act of war?

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Degrees and kinds of war

The theory and conduct of war

• Strategy
• Tactics of land warfare
• Naval tactics
• Air tactics
• Logistics
• Intelligence
• Guerilla warfare
• Cyber-War
  • anti-surveillance: Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • cold war: Bridge of Spies, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by le Carré
  • news & analysis: Schneier on Security
  • phone spyware: Pegasus
  • russian influence: The Great Hack
  • social media: Messing with the Enemy by Watts
  • survival: Click Here to Kill Everybody by Schneier

Military

The consequences of war

• Concentration Camps: Auschwitz Remembered
• Law of Retaliation: Act of War (sp)

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Further reading:

• chaoas: Trump and His Generals Bergen
• classics: War and Peace Tolstoy, Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence
• endless war: The Forever War Haldeman, A Nation Unmade by War Engelhardt
• ISIS/Al-Qaeda: Anatomy of Terror Soufan
• journalism: TomDispatch
• mercenaries & plausible deniability: The New Rules of War McFate
• Vietnam: The Fog of War McNamara
• weaponization of technology: The Pentagon’s Brain Jacobsen