Pentagon's Conundrum

What does the Pentagon do? Do you know? The Pentagon is America's National building of defense, it is the main point in planning and defense, five different branches of defense work there Navy, Army, Marines, Air Force and US Coast Guard. The Pentagon has over 23,000 employees working, the windows in the Pentagon are 2 inch thick glass panes weighing over one ton each, when 9/11 occurred, a plane that crashed into the Pentagon the day was coincidentally 60 years after it was built. The Department of Defense otherwise known as the Pentagon is located in Arlington County, Virginia and is a great place to learn about the defences of our country, Its history, career options and interesting facts.

This article begins by outlining the tragic death of an artificial intelligence robot, named Steve. Steve’s accidental death, by stairs, raises a lot of new questions surrounding robots, and their rights. In his article, Leetaru, discusses the range of questions that have sparked from not only Steve’s death, but the rise of advanced robot mechanics. While the Silicon Valley is busy grinding out new plans and models of robots, especially security robots, how can we establish what a mechanical robot is entitled to? Leetaru offers many different scenarios concerning robots against aggressors, in hopes to reveal that these rights be outlined with the rise in usage of this technology. The article speculates how in the future, when these robots

One risk of artificial intelligence is that machines can malfunction and not know when to stop advancing on the enemy or distinguish between an enemy and a citizen, and not have a risk of unnecessary carnage. Today’s modern warfare is high-paced, mobile, and technologically advanced. It has been stated that “today’s sophisticated weapons can malfunction, be too lethal, and their speed and effective range reduces reaction time and decreases the ability to distinguish

The Defense Science Board’s 2016 Summer Study on Autonomy is a wide-ranging discussion of how the department can more quickly and effectively adopt autonomous capabilities in support of rapid decision making, performing dangerous missions, and handling high volume data. The recommendations address technical engineering, design, and acquisition challenges, but also less structured issues such as governance for systems, relationship to the Law of War, and trust. Out of 26 major recommendations, one stands out as fundamentally distinct—the need to develop an autonomy-literate workforce. It is an acknowledgement that “American military forces, formerly equipped with largely electro-mechanical platforms, are now fielding systems that are dependent on software for combat effectiveness. This technology shift has placed a huge demand on education and training to provide qualified people…”

One of the strongest attributes of the UAV weapon systems is their precision and accuracy on a target. UAV’s have the ability to scan, track and monitor a target for hours before ever engages a potential enemy. During that time, the decision to engage is not left on the operator alone. The unique nature of this technology is that more than one person has a vote in pulling the trigger. Due to these unique capabilities, drones, according to many reports, inflict relatively low civilian casualty rates. (Williams, 2013)

The U.S. military has been, and remains, a world leader in remote targeted killings ever since the fateful events of September 11, 2001. The drone has become dominant in U.S. national security strategy, which has switched from counterinsurgency in the city to counterterrorism from the skies. Now, as the world yearns for the next big thing to change everyday life, mankind turns his gaze to artificial intelligence used to carry weapons of war. For these reasons, drone usage should be limited for the general public in the United States.

The Armies has often come under critical scrutiny as a literary journalistic text that amalgamates fictional narratives with factual information of the October 1967 Peace March on the Pentagon to protest against Vietnam War. The Armies shows the literary talents of Mailer, the journalist, who have an inner desire, not to tell the news objectively, but to narrate, interpret, and reflect upon such news subjectively. The text is divided into two books as indicated in the subtitle. The first book, entitled “The History as a Novel: The Steps of the Pentagon”, tells the story of the March and Mailer’s active participation in it (historical fact) from the highly subjective perspective of the author (narrative technique). Moreover, in an attempt to

In our ever aging society new ideas are being made each and every day. Autonomous drones are one of these relatively new ideas that could help or turn out to be disastrous. These drones are capable of sifting through hundreds of hours of video very quickly, or help our soldiers survive in the battlefield. This is of course in a perfect world. In the real world autonomous drones have to many unanswered questions. They aren’t held accountable under international law and they don’t have common sense like a soldier would on the battlefield. They could possibly start an unintentional war. They are too risky to be used in warfare and they are too unpredictable to be trusted with the lives of soldiers. This amount of risk has called for a lot of attention by human rights lawyers.

“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” Theses dark and foreboding words from U.S. Army General Omar Bradley serve as solemn reminder of the impact that modern technology has had on war and how we wage it. But Bradley was referring to the controversy revolving around nuclear weapons in the nineteen-fifties. In world of today; however, the controversy lies in the use of drones. These remotely controlled planes can be used to spy and, most questionably, to kill. Some argue that these drones save American lives by separating the soldier from the battlefield. Others say that this separation will lead to an unrealistic view of war and its consequences. Regardless of how they shape the world, new technologies like the drone will continue to mold the concept of war in the modern era.

The terminator type artificial intelligent robot stands across a vast death valley full of human carcasses. The robot is draped in human blood while it fires upon a group of futile human rebellions stuck behind a Swiss cheese type car firing with meaningless antique weapons. After the robot is done undergoing the pointless attack from the human rebellions, he fires one round from arm based weapon. He wipes the humans from ever existing. Military weapons will be so technically advanced in the future that the United States will have no other way than to innovate and invent new military weapons, equipment, and personnel to keep up against the advancements in opposing nations. Technology is slowly taking place of soldiers which is the greatest

The automation of the modern battlefield and the proliferation of unmanned systems to conduct war is a reality and imaginably it will only increase in the future. As these new weapon systems make their way to the battlefield it will require leaders to decide how to responsibly employ these systems and how often they will be used in substitution of actual Soldiers. The benefits and effectiveness of drones cannot be denied. The use of drones does limit the exposure of American Soldiers and the accuracy of drones to kill the enemy and limit civilian casualties does and will continue to improve.

Economist, T. (2011, july 30). Drones and the man/ the ethics of warfare. the economist, 400. Retrieved from the economist: Retrieved from http://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?

Thomas Barnett, in the article, “The Pentagon’s New Map: It Explains Why We’re Going to War, and Why We’ll Keep Going to War,” says that disconnectedness defines danger . Barnett describes two parts of the world he calls The Functioning Core and The Non-Integrating Gap . The Functioning Core, also called the “Core”, features regions thick with network connectivity, financial transactions, liberal media flows, collective security, with stable governments, rising standards of living and more deaths by suicide than murder . The Non-Integrating Gap, also known as the “Gap” features regions where globalization is thinning or just plain absent,

What image comes to mind when one hears the words “Killer Robot”? If one visualises the laser-wielding android in Terminator 2 which threatens to overpower its defenceless human adversaries, one would not be too far from the truth[1]. Today, advanced robots capable of engaging a human target autonomously are no longer confined to fiction but are instead rapidly becoming a reality.

Since it inception, mankind has been entrenched in warfare for much of its history. Much of our history has been dominated by long periods of conflict. What once began as small groups of individuals fighting each other with whatever weapons they could pick up or craft with their hands, has evolved and progressed into massive state-sponsored armies battling each other with the highest degree of training and the most technologically advanced weapons. Within the last decade a new weapon has been introduced to the battlefield, the unmanned drone. These drones do not require a human pilot onboard and have been at the center of controversy in recent years. Critics of this weapon claim that it violates the principles of just