Introduction: The Battle for Reality in the Age of Generative AI The character of information warfare has changed more dramatically between 2024 and 2026 than at any period since the emergence of social media. Advances in large language models (LLMs),…...
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From Soviet Cybernetics to AI-Driven Warfare in Ukraine Artificial intelligence has become the defining military technology race of the twenty-first century. While public attention often focuses on the United States and China, Russia has quietly transformed itself into one of…...
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Introduction: The Space Domain Has Become a Strategic Battlespace Space is no longer merely an enabler of military operations—it has become a contested warfighting domain in its own right. The rapid expansion of satellite constellations, increasing geopolitical rivalry, growing dependence…...
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Introduction: The Electromagnetic Spectrum Becomes a Warfighting Domain The nature of warfare is undergoing a profound transformation. While tanks, ships, aircraft, missiles, and satellites remain visible symbols of military power, an increasingly decisive battle is being fought within an invisible…...
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Introduction: The Beginning of the Wetware Computing Era For more than half a century, the global computing revolution has been driven by silicon. From microprocessors to modern AI accelerators, progress depended on shrinking transistors, increasing chip density, and scaling computational…...
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Introduction: The End of Moore’s Law and the Emergence of Living Computing For more than seven decades, the digital age has been powered by Moore’s Law—the relentless doubling of transistor density that transformed room-sized computers into AI supercomputers capable of…...
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Introduction: The Battle for the AI Cognitive Layer The global race to dominate artificial intelligence has entered a far more dangerous phase. The first wave of concern centered on what Large Language Models (LLMs) could generate—fake images, malware, automated propaganda,…...
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Introduction: The Emergence of Autonomous Cyber Warfare Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining strategic technologies of the 21st century. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI GPT-series models, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, and rapidly advancing open-source…...
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Introduction: The End of the Battery Era The world is entering an age of ambient intelligence in which trillions of connected devices continuously sense, communicate, analyze, and respond to their environment. From industrial sensors and smart-city infrastructure to military surveillance…...
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From Scientific Breakthrough to Strategic Bio-Capability Introduction: From Nobel Science to Operational Biology The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker marked a historic validation of computational protein design as a predictive science. For decades, protein…...
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