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1. Gray, Strategy for Chaos; Boot, War Made New; Krepinevich, “Cavalry to Computer”; Van Creveld, The Transformation of War; and Mahnken, Technology and the American Way of War. Though it should be added, Clausewitz has very little to say about the technology’s impact on war.
2. RMAs or MMIs can also of course be driven by major organizational changes to militaries. See Horowitz, The Diffusion of Military Power, 22.
3. Rossiter, “Participation in Warfare.”
4. Diamond, “Liberation Technology.”
5. Scharre, “The Opportunities and Challenges.”
6. For a synopsis of the major arguments related to horizontal diffusion of military technology, see Gilli and Gilli, “Why China has Not Caught Up Yet.”
7. Kline, “Impacts of the Robotics Age,” 67.
8. For a detailed examination of how hype can influence the development cycle of technology, see Rossiter, “High-Energy Laser Weapons.”
9. Horowitz, “Military Robotics, Autonomous Systems,” 182.
10. MacAskill, “US Drones Hacked.”
11. Horowitz, “Military Robotics, Autonomous Systems,” 162.
12. Scharre, “The Opportunity and Challenges.”
13. US DOD, “Autonomy in Weapon Systems.”
14. Dombrowski, Gholz, and Ross, “Selling Military Transformation,” 530.
15. Horowitz, Kreps, and Fuhrmann, “Separating Fact from Fiction”; Fuhrmann and Horowitz, “Droning On”; Boyle et al. “Debating Drone Proliferation”; and Joshi and Stein, ‘Emerging Drone Nations,” 53–78.
16. This is an idea throughout Horowitz’s The Diffusion of Military Power.
17. Altmann Frank Sauer, “Autonomous Weapon Systems,” 117.
18. See Rossiter, “Drone Usage by Militant Groups.”
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Ash Rossiter
Ash Rossiter is Assistant Professor of International Security at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi where his research focuses on technology and international security, the changing character of war and conflict and the shifting geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific Region. Prior to academia, he pursued a career in the Middle East, spanning both the public and private sectors