David Petraeus and Isaac C. Flanagan
The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern Ukraine (and to a lesser degree in the Middle East), where missions are increasingly executed by machines at speeds no human can match and electronic warfare is severing the links between operators and their machines. Very soon, autonomous systems will no longer operate individually; over time, they will form platoon- or even battalion-sized units that share information and coordinate without human intervention. And the side that waits for human approval
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