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Nagorno-Karabakh: Tanks, Drones, and Implications for 21st Century Warfare

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October 30, 2020 1:00 pm

Nagorno-Karabakh: Tanks, Drones, and Implications for 21st Century Warfare

As unmanned weapon systems become more ubiquitous, the role of tanks on the modern battlefield is being questioned. On October 30, 2020, IST hosted a disscussion with experts on emerging military technologies, tank warfare, and electronic warfare.
drones, electronic warfare, tank warfare, unmanned systems
October 30, 2020
Communication Disruption Attacks on NC3

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Communication Disruption Attacks on NC3

In an essay out of the workshop "Last Chance: Communicating at the Nuclear Brink," Paul Bracken argues, "in a nuclear world we should be careful about attacking enemy communications because doing so leads to greater risks of uncontrolled escalation. The worst possible situation is the one the United States is now in, that is, to not be clear in our own minds about what we are doing when it comes to disrupting communications.”
CATALINK, communication, communication attacks, electromagnetic pulse, electronic warfare, escalation, military, NC3, nuclear, red line, retaliation, strike, target, targeting, United States, vulnerability
May 28, 2020
Cyber Operations and Nuclear Weapons

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Cyber Operations and Nuclear Weapons

In Cyber Operations and Nuclear Weapons, Jon Lindsay argues that "offensive cyber operations targeting NC3 introduce a number of under-appreciated risks of organizational breakdown, decision making confusion, and rational miscalculation in a nuclear crisis.”
accidental launch, arms control, attack vector, complexity, computer, control, counterattack, counterintelligence, countermeasure, crisis, crytographic, cyber, digital, electronic warfare, escalation, NC3, reconnaissance, redundant, retaliation, software, stability, Stuxnet, supercomputer
June 20, 2019