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Just War Theory & Military Ethics

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Embracing the Future: Overcoming Path Dependence and Risk Aversion in AI Adoption

  POSTED ON: Thursday, February 26, 2026 by Dr. Joseph J. Thomas

Over the past several years, the United States Naval Academy has served as a micro-laboratory for the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Initially, the conversation was confined to Generative AI, machines mimicking human creativity by ...

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Does Terminator Have Rights?

  POSTED ON: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 by Michael Robillard

Within contemporary discourse on the ethics of AWS (autonomous weapons systems), one of the most popular in-principle moral arguments against the use of such technologies is the so-called ‘responsibility gap’ argument ...

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Great Power, Responsibility, and Killing in War

  POSTED ON: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 by Dr. Bob Underwood

"[T]he current surge … in robotic warfare is being driven by the promise of efficiency and control and the hunger for what militaries have tasted in Nagrorno-Karabakh and in Ukraine: the power of universal precision." - George ...

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The Yugoslav Wars and the Dangers of an Emotion Fueled Media Environment

  POSTED ON: Friday, September 12, 2025 by Gavin Bannister

Introduction In 1992, Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia, following in the footsteps of Croatia and Slovenia, who had done the same the previous year. Bosnian Muslim control over the new government immediately upset the large Bosnian ...

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