Bravelest Warrior Who Fear Death Most: Robots and War

Author: Hu Siyuan, Editor-in-Chief of the National Defence University of the People's Liberation Army
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Zhuge Liang of the agricultural era created wooden oxen and horses, but in the information age, robot units have emerged. These are truly "death-defying" warriors. As they are information-based soldiers without life, each one is highly skilled and exceptionally agile. They face no hesitation in the face of hardship or amidst gun fire. Will future battlefields be dominated by robots? Read this book to find out! The transformation of war forms and styles, as well as the constraints and balance on war ethics and laws, can be seen, in a sense, as the result of long-term human efforts and an important manifestation of human civilization's progress. The emergence of unmanned warfare has prompted people to reconsider some widely recognized war ethics. At the same time, it has accelerated the shift in the focus of battlefield confrontation in future wars. If the past was characterized by the mass annihilation of enemy combat power, especially in mechanized warfare, then the unmannedization of battlefield confrontation will make it increasingly difficult to achieve mass destruction of enemy combat power. The content of war damage has begun to shift from being primarily human-centric to being object-centric. Objects can be targeted far more quickly and easily than humans. This change in the war damage model will inevitably lead both sides of the conflict to shift their focus to the intangible domain of intelligent warfare. By engaging in large-scale information warfare, particularly in command warfare, control warfare, and intelligence warfare, the aim is to paralyze and weaken the enemy's control over the entire military organization, especially over various unmanned weapon systems, to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy. Therefore, the assertion that "tanks were the core weapons of ground combat in the 20th century, while military robots may dominate in the 21st century" is becoming a reality.