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gearing up for war in outer space
Humans are territorial creatures. The only reason why we seem to share outer space with each other is because we can’t put up border crossings and have them stay in the same place. But when we reach...
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environmentalists take on the military
When gas prices surged beyond $4 a gallon across the United States, calculating miles per gallon became a national sport and just about every environmental group was out to track down the biggest gas...
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who needs a clearance? you’ve got wikileaks!
Illustration from Square Enix’s Supreme Commander Ordinarily, if you wanted to sift through all the day to day reports of an ongoing war, you’d need to apply for and receive a security clearance, a...
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why space fighters would actually be useful
Just about every sci-fi movie featuring a battle in the depths of space generally shows large ships engaged in pitched combat sending out a swarm of fighters to deliver surgical blows to their...
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to sate appetites for war, bring back the draft?
One rather popular theory among foreign relations pundits about American attitudes towards war is that we’re ready and willing to fight because more than 99% of us don’t have any skin in the game....
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the weapon no one can see coming…
When XKCD managed to outdo itself yet again with an article about what would happen if you tried to play a very simple game of baseball at relativistic velocities, I remembered an interesting weapon...
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why autonomous killer robots are inevitable and why we should be pretty...
The peaceniks at Amnesty International have been worried about killer robots for a while, so as the international community convenes in Geneva to talk about weapons of the future, they once again...
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how killer robots can reshape the world’s militaries and geopolitics
American military spending has been the stuff of legend for decades. We spend more on defense than the next seven largest military spenders combined and are slowly but surely inching towards the...
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how social media brought us to the edge of world war 3
Unless you emerged from a coma literally minutes ago, you know what’s happening in Ukraine and the terrifying threat to the world order as we knew it for nearly three quarters of a century. It’s a sad...
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