Striking Power : How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War / Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabkin, Jeremy A., author.

Yoo, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (International law).

Military weapons (International law).

Technological innovations--Law and legislation.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 294 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2017.

New York : Encounter Books, [2017]

Summary:

Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones, autonomous robots, and cyber weapons. These weapons can provide more precise, less destructive means to coerce opponents to stop WMD proliferation, clamp down on terrorism, or end humanitarian disasters. Efforts to constrain new military technologies are not only doomed, but dangerous. Most weapons in themselves are not good or evil; their morality turns on the motives and purposes for the war itself. These new weapons can send a strong message without cause death or severe personal injury, and as a result can make war less, rather than more, destructive.

Contents:

We must think anew

Returning to coercion

A few things regarded as barbarous and cruel : the law of war before the 1970s

How the law of war was rewritten

The rise of the machines

Cyber weapons

Coercion in space.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781594038884

1594038880

OCLC:

1455139271