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03 Dec

...diplomats may respond to WikiLeaks’ disclosures by self-censoring and by avoiding written communications. But it is difficult to believe that WikiLeaks will have any significant or lasting effect on the US’s ability to engage in diplomacy with friendly or unfriendly governments; after all, this is hardly the first time in U.S. history that diplomatic secrets have been disclosed. Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, said it best a couple of days ago: Let me just offer some perspective as somebody who’s been at this a long time. Every other government...
03.12.10 | |

01 Apr

AI or more traditional process automation components.  There are other important risk evaluation parameters to consider when assigning AI-enabled weapon systems to the unacceptable, high, or medium risk categories. These include whether the system is platform-centric (entirely self-contained), network-centric (the final engagement decision is made at a node external to the platform itself), or part of an intelligent swarm; lethality (non-lethal or lethal); level of autonomy (remotely controlled, semi-autonomous, fully autonomous, or fully autonomous and capable of online learning); intent (primarily offensive or defensive); reversibility (reversible or irreversible effects); and...
01.04.24 | |

17 Jan

...from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values… This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. War is not the answer. Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic...
17.01.05 | |

30 Nov

...— Saddam’s former Defense Minister — secretly assisted Kurdish efforts to overthrow Saddam: “Personally, I will not support executing Sultan Hashim,” he said at a news conference in Sulaimaniyah, a city in the autonomous Kurdish region 160 miles northeast of Baghdad. “If the court will carry out its verdicts without referring them to the presidency council that is something else,” he said. “But if they will refer them, then we will register reservations these verdicts.” He said the reservations would include executing former Iraqi army officers because many of them...
30.11.07 | |