tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887330991268660521.post8619715654839833807..comments2023-10-17T00:32:35.104+11:00Comments on Wigs and Pens: CAPPE Postgraduate Musings: Neuroweapons, oh my!Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320048514485105313noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887330991268660521.post-89138579982487215162008-04-25T00:56:00.000+10:002008-04-25T00:56:00.000+10:00Thanks for the comments on the paper. I agree that...Thanks for the comments on the paper. I agree that the consequences of increasingly autonomous/remotely-controlled technology will likely significantly change the nature of war. Society, I suspect, will probably shift toward accepting more collateral damage and civilian deaths as the actual horrors of war become less and less concrete for the soldiers responsible for them. I'm not sure how to prevent this from happening, but it seems that we need to think about how to diminish non-combatant killings before the technology gets ahead of us, as it always seems to do in wartime, when machines get increasingly advanced and people, increasingly morally compromised. --StephenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887330991268660521.post-32294237248449419532008-04-23T12:49:00.000+10:002008-04-23T12:49:00.000+10:00Chuck: thanks for the reference. It's a good arti...Chuck: thanks for the reference. It's a good article!<BR/><BR/>Catherine: I agree. It's a problem with assymetric wars, and something that needs better ethical analysis, and better understanding on a public and policy level. "realist" conceptions of war are fading fast, and "terrorist" warfare is fast becoming the only resort. Walzer mentions a number of conditions of resistane/guerilla warfare, but in effect, we are all living in a pseudo-empire goverend by american desires. As such, any militant dissent will only be able to take the form of that which is commonly used in occupied territory, hence terrorist attacks.<BR/><BR/>Of course, in Iraq, they are occupied, so all the more reasons for insurgent tactics.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687111256522067772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887330991268660521.post-36365989196356563962008-04-23T12:42:00.000+10:002008-04-23T12:42:00.000+10:00See I'm all for those days back then when the king...See I'm all for those days back then when the kings and generals used to lead their armies into war. See the blood and guts and first hand stuff. I wanna see GWB and other armchair warmongers go out there and see what they're doing to civilians and soldiers on the front lines. Problem is there aren't really lines as such these days -- things seem to be more about how far away you can fire your missile from or blow up your bomb or whatever. Also these insurgent wars don't seem to follow the good old chap type rules of war which seems to make it more permissable in these warmongers' eyes to approve nasty ways of doing things anyway. Bler. War sucks. I'd rather take a fist to the stomach.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13320048514485105313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887330991268660521.post-6412362274464742072008-04-23T12:23:00.000+10:002008-04-23T12:23:00.000+10:00You should take a look at Suzy Killmister's articl...You should take a look at Suzy Killmister's article in the May JAP on the more general topic of remote weaponry. She looks at some of the further implications of such systems.Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06730225851847909809noreply@blogger.com