Drone Warfare in the Nuclear Age
By Michael Klare and Tom Engelhardt When it comes to war, increasingly autonomous drones are now, it seems, the name of the game. Only the…
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Artificial Intelligence Goes to War
Uh… gulp… you thought it was bad when that experienced pilot ejected from one of the Air Force’s hottest “new” planes, the F-35 combat fighter,…
22 Years of Drone Warfare and No End in Sight
By Maha Hilal and Tom Engelhardt In a June 2012 piece headlined “Praying at the Church of St. Drone,” I wrote, “Be assured of one…
Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
By William D. Hartung and Tom Engelhardt Yes, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, would kill…
The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations
By Michael Klare and Tom Engelhardt I give myself credit for being significantly ahead of my time. I first came across artificial intelligence (AI) in…
Not Your Grandfather’s Military-Industrial Complex
By Ben Freeman, William D. Hartung and Tom Engelhardt Honestly, it should take your breath away. We are on a planet prepping for further war…
Five Absurd Things That Simply Can’t Happen in Wartime Washington
Tom Engelhardt Tom’s Dispatch The other day I visited a website I check regularly for all things military, Noah Shachtman’s Danger Room blog at Wired…
Entering the Soviet Era in America
Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch — Mark it on your calendar. It seems we’ve finally entered the Soviet era in America. You remember the Soviet Union, now almost 20…