| Summary/Abstract |
Robotic weapons are widely believed to be the future of war.1
Dramatic progress
in the science and engineering of robotics, alongside the perceived success
of the U.S. Predator and Reaper drones in Iraq and Afghanistan, has led many
commentators to conclude that the wars of the twenty-first century increasingly
will be fought, by industrialized nations at least, using remotely piloted and autonomous
weapon systems (AWSs).
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