21st Century warfare…from cyber attacks to robots

The Information Revolution, the Just War doctrine, cyber warfare, drones, robots, warfare without bloodshed…these and other issues are discussed in the Atlantic.

A sampling:

 How do you define information warfare?

Taddeo: The definition of “information warfare” is hotly debated.
One example would be cyber-attacks or hacker attacks, which we consider to be information warfare; another example would be the use of drones or semi-autonomous machines.
From those instances, to me, a good definition of information warfare is “the use of information communication technologies within a military strategy that is endorsed by a state.”

What’s also interesting is the reference to the existence of non-physical space such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc., and that events that occur in these spaces, increasingly affect events in the physical world.

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