Military Technology

See some of our publications below.

Robotic warfare has now become a real prospect. One issue that has generated heated debate concerns the development of ‘Killer Robots’. These are weapons that, once programmed, are capable of finding and engaging a...

Contrary to the prevailing view that drones spare civilian lives, this paper argues that drones actually place more civilians at risk. The reason is simple: drones are used outside areas of active hostilities in...

The debate over how to properly rein in the errors and abuses of the drone program remains stalled between two ineffective and constitutionally problematic extremes. While some have defended Executive unilateralism and...

This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once programmed, of searching for and engaging a target without direct intervention by a...