Targeted killing – the killing of specific individuals usually performed by drones – is a globally expanding practice.
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Maybe you think neuroscience has a peaceable history of benign efforts to improve lives and enhance human capacities. But its origins and development tell a different story – with ethical implications.
The difficulties that soldiers face when returning home from battle are part of an old, old story.
A more muscular foreign policy in our region would carry risks, but it might also show Australia and its neighbours that the US has its interests at heart.
Why would you lie about battlefield honours?
In less than a week, Americans will choose their next president. And either way, there are problems on a foerign policy level.
When it loses the UK, the EU loses an important military power, which makes the remaining countries keener than ever to collaborate.
What is hybrid warfare, and why would Australia benefit from its technological developments?
As military organisations become less oriented towards violence, the traditional, aggressive, warrior-like culture of the military has to be balanced with new task requirements.
The author sat in on one of the Swedish military’s virtual reality training exercises. Here’s what they saw.
There’s no doubt it was time for the United Nations mission in Liberia to end. But there are some gaps in the country’s plan to move on without the men and women in blue helmets.
Equality is coming to the British Armed Forces, whether it’s wanted or not.
Military institutions and militarised cultures seek to generate a unity of people and purpose. Initiation rituals have been a historically stable strategy to achieve this.
After the Somme the British army was supplied with vastly more firepower than before. This would decide the course of this war.
Worried that a shortage of language speakers could be a security risk, the army now gives soldiers cash incentives to learn them.
Unpicking the gap between rhetoric and reality.
The country’s actual offensive cyber capabilities remain shrouded in the classified world. But what is public is enough to discuss potential cyber weapons and how they might be used.
Grand plans designed to reduce reliance on oil will struggle to create an economy which helps all the Kingdom’s subjects.
It’s time to challenge the misconceptions plaguing veterans.
A retired major general and judge advocate considers the legalities of Trump’s bombastic anti-ISIS talk.
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