From Armed Forces Journal, a special issue on cyberwar. From the latest issue of Air & Space Power Journal, Adam B. Lowther (AFRI): Should the United States Maintain the Nuclear Triad? From Parameters, Bart Schuurman (Utrecht): Clausewitz and the "New Wars" Scholars; and a special section on Counterinsurgency and Beyond. Raphael Cohen (Georgetown): War Games: Civil-Military Relations, c. 2030. Thomas R. Mccabe (DoD): The Strategic Failures of al Qaeda. From the Center of American Progress, a special report: "The Iraq War Ledger: A Tabulation of the Human, Financial, and Strategic Costs". In 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq with just a handful of unmanned vehicles, and now, less than a decade later, we have 7000 robots overseas in the air alone; the U.S. dominates the robot war room, for now. Is the age of robotic warfare upon us? P.W. Singer and Brad Allenby argue that it is — Fred Kaplan raises a skeptical eyebrow. Increasing military interest in the body cancels the transgressive potential of the cyborg; where humans become the weakest link in contemporary warfare, the cyborg represents a desire for total masculinist control and domination. Can "Terminators" actually be our salvation? An interview with Peter Asaro, author of “How Just Could a Robot War Be?” Seth Hettena reviews Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P. W. Singer (and more). Double-hatting around the law: P.W. Singer on the problem with morphing warrior, spy and civilian roles. What good soldiers bear: Nancy Sherman on an exploration of the invisible wounds of war. Putting the Pentagon on a Diet: Will bad times and a bad economy finally discipline the Pentagon? Meet Mickey Weinstein, the man who's trying to purge evangelical Christianity from the Pentagon.
