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"In the 1960's guerrillas were operating in almost all Latin American countries, as well as in Africa and Asia, and the need of specialized weapons to fight them arose. The Argentine Air Force, seeing this threat grow, asked the FMA factory to produce a counterinsurgency airplane to equip the force, but also to offer on the international market. After several proposals were analysed, a final product emerged, called the IA-58 Pucar̀, a robust twin turboprop aircraft with heavy internal weapons, planned to operate from unprepared airstrips on very hard conditions. The plane entered service with the Argentine Air Force in 1975 and more than 100 were produced over the years, with several versions being developed or proposed. It was purchased by Uruguay, Colombia and Sri Lanka, the type gained world notoriety when they took part on the 1982 South Atlantic war, but also had combat experience in Colombia and Sri Lanka, and was tested by the Royal Air Force. Now, with the original version already retired, the Argentine Air Force plans to convert them into the Pucar̀ F̌nix version, with new engines and avionics, with new missions too, like intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. While some aspects of its story were described in many publications, most of it has never been told until now, including many unknown proposed versions and details of its operational record, both in Argentina and in the other countries that operated the plane." -- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : drone warfare, enlightenment, and asymmetry
• Sovereign (ir)responsibility
• Remote occupation
• Deferred extermination
• Epilogue : publicity and mediation

"This book argues that the rise of drone warfare is fundamentally a political and colonial problem, the origins of which stretch back to the Enlightenment"-- Provided by publisher

"At the beginning of the 20th Century, naval warfare, which for centuries had been limited to the surface, moved quickly into the domain below the surface and the air above. The influence of undersea and aerial warfare in naval history is well known. The fourth domain involving the electromagnetic spectrum, which also appeared at this time, also had an impact on naval warfare, though much less has been written about this important aspect of military conflict on the high seas. When navies began to make use of the airways, they soon discovered that it could also be used as a unique source of information about the opposing force, instituting a form of intelligence that would later be termed Electronic Intelligence. Also discovered was the value of interrupting or corrupting the enemy's communication signals that were transmitted in the ether, thus beginning a method of fighting we now term Electronic Warfare"-- Provided by publisher.

"Le réseau fortifié de la sénéchaussée royale de Carcassonne, organisé autour de la Cité, surplombe les contreforts de la Montagne noire et des Corbières et constitue aujourd'hui un superbe ensemble patrimonial. L'architecture y prolonge la roche dans un élan vertical s'imposant sur les paysages. Ce spectaculaire ensemble de monuments est emblématique de l'essor des systèmes de fortifications conçus par les pouvoirs souverains pour maîtriser, défendre et contrôler leurs territoires contre les ennemis intérieurs et extérieurs. Le colloque de Carcassonne de 2021 s'était donné pour objectif de rassembler historiens, architectes et archéologues de toute l'Europe pour comparer des systèmes souverains équivalents, situés sur le continent européen, aux xme et mye siècles. Le présent volume rend compte de l'extraordinaire richesse de ces échanges. De la vie quotidienne à la vie de siège, de la taille de la pierre à la mise en oeuvre de projets complexes, de l'administration à la maîtrise d'oeuvre, tous les aspects de la vie de ces réseaux fortifiés ont été évoqués, dans des contextes éminemment différents. Ils ont permis de montrer à quel point l'ensemble carcassonnais est symbolique d'un mouvement européen, voire mondial, d'appropriation et d'organisation des espaces par les sociétés médiévales."--Page 4 of cover.

• Power. The new oil ; Data ; Compute ; Talent ; Institutions
• Competition. A winning hand ; Maven ; Revolt ; Sputnik moment
• Repression. Terror ; Sharp eyes ; A better world ; Panopticon ; Dystopia
• Truth. Disinformation ; Synthetic reality ; Transformation ; Bot wars
• Rift. Fusion ; Harmony ; Stranglehold
• Revolution. Robotics row ; Project Voltron ; Foundation ; The wrong kind of lethality ; Jedi ; Disruption
• Alchemy. Control ; Poison ; Trust ; Race to the bottom
• Fire. Alien intelligence ; Battlefield singularity ; Restraint ; The future of AI

"A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives--and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes readers inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future"-- Provided by publisher

• The Structures of Violence: Fritz Haber and the Institutionalization of Gas Warfare
• The Man in the Rubber Mask: World War I and the Development of the Modern Gas Mask
• The First "Chemical Subjects": Soldiers Encounters with the Gas Mask in World War I
• The Limits of Sympathy: The Medical Treatment of Poison Gas During and After World War I
• Atmos(fears): The Poison Gas Debates in the Weimar Republic
• Technologies of Fate: Cultural and Intellectual Prophesies of the Future Gas War
• Synthesizing the "Nazi Chemical Subject": Gas Masks, Personal Armoring, and Vestiary Discipline in the Third Reich
• Prophets of Poison: Industrialized Murder in the Gas Chambers of the Holocaust.

"Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of World War II, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies such as the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management, and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The Strategic Defence Initiative and the Atlantic Alliance in the 1980s,
• Part 1: SDI and the Superpowers, 2. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative, 3. The Soviet Response to the Strategic Defense Initiative,
• Part 2: Government Decision-making behind SDI Participation, 4. Britain, SDI and the United States, 1983-6: A Guarded Relationship, 5. Germany and SDI, 1983-86: Anchoring US Extended Nuclear Deterrence and Westbindung for an Offence-Defence Future, 6. Italy and the SDI Project: Envisioning a Technological Breakthrough for the Whole Alliance?,
• Part 3: NATO Governments' Rejection of SDI, 7. France's Reaction Towards the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1986): Transforming a Strategic Threat into a Technological Opportunity, 8. Canada's "Polite No" to the SDI: A Question of Sovereignty?, 9. The Netherlands and SDI, 1983-87: We Have to Do the Research, 10. Danish and Norwegian Responses to the SDI: Between Low-Voiced Scepticism and Outspoken Opposition,
• Part 4: Civil Society and the Peace Movement, 11. The SDI: A Further Challenge for the US Anti-Nuclear Movement?, 12. SDI as a Contested Imaginary in British Culture and Society: 'Winning in Space', 13. British and International Peace Campaigning against the Strategic Defence Initiative: Folly's Comet, 14. Star Wars: Views from the Commentariat.
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This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO. The chapters here explore the reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 invitation to participate. While existing studies have explored the origins of the American programme and the role it may have played in ending the Cold War, this volume breaks new ground by considering the impact of the SDI on transatlantic relations in the 1980s. Based on newly available archival sources, this volume re-evaluates the responses of eight NATO member-state governments, as well as the Soviet leadership, to the SDI. In addition to looking at 'top-down' governmental reactions, the volume also explores the 'bottom-up' response to the SDI of civil society and peace activists on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume examines how the American initiative - derisively named 'Star Wars' by its detractors - provoked a crisis in relations with its allies during the final decade of the Cold War and how those tensions within NATO were ultimately resolved. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history, strategic studies, foreign policy and international history.
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• 1st Keynote Session
• 2nd Keynote Session
• Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles - 1
• Kalman Filter Application, Space, Flight Performance, and Aerodynamics - 1
• 1st Invited Speaker Session
• Workshop Pico/Micro/Nano-Satellite Engineering
• 2nd Invited Speaker Session
• 3rd Invited Speaker Session
• Environment, Sustainability, Energy Simulation Studies - 1
• Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles - 2
• Special Session - Lighter, Faster, Stronger, Cheaper: How Generative Design is Transforming Design & Manufacturing
• Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles - 3
• Environment, Sustainability, Energy Simulation Studies - 2
• Aircraft Technologies: Design, Materials, Structures, Composites
• Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles - 4
• Kalman Filter Application, Space, Flight Performance, and Aerodynamics - 2

Unmanned systems are one of the fastest-growing and widely developing technologies in the world, offering many possibilities for a variety of research fields. This book comprises the proceedings of the 2021 International Symposium on Unmanned Systems and the Defense Industry (ISUDEF), a multi-disciplinary conference on a broad range of current research and issues in areas such as autonomous technology, unmanned aircraft technologies, avionics, radar systems, air defense, aerospace robotics and mechatronics, and aircraft technology design. ISUDEF allows researchers, scientists, engineers, practitioners, policymakers, and students to exchange information, present new technologies and developments, and discuss future direction, strategies, and priorities in the field of autonomous vehicles and unmanned aircraft technologies. Covers a range of emerging topics; Addresses current issues on autonomous vehicles and unmanned aircraft; Full proceedings of ISUDEF 2021 held at Howard University

"At the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s the Soviet Union possessed some 12,000 aircraft, making it the largest air force of all the protagonists. By the 1990s this had declined to around 8,000, the reduction largely reflecting the increase in aircraft capability. As well as fighters and bombers, the Soviet inventory included trainers, transports, seaplanes, electronic warfare and ground attack aircraft, as well as an impressive helicopter fleet, notably the Mi-24 'Hind' gunship and the massive Homer transport.The Tu-4 'Bull' was the first Russian nuclear-capable bomber, a copy of the US B-29, which was followed by their range of jet bombers, the Il-28 'Beagle', Tu-16 'Badger' and M-4 'Bison'. The prop driven Tu-20 'Bear' and its successors including the Tu-22 'Backfire' and finally the Tu-160 'Backfire', were all formidable.The jet-engined MiG-15 fighter entered service in 1948 and proved itself during the Korean War. The MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-21 followed . Ground-attack aircraft included the Su-7 'Fitter' and M-23 'Flogger'. The 1970s saw the MiG-25 'Foxbat' interceptor, followed by the MiG-29 'Fulcrum' and Su-27 'Flanker', coming into service."

"The A-10 is the Air Force's unlikely success story, an airplane designed to support the Army, and one that ground troops came to venerate. Originally conceived with the express purpose of destroying Soviet tanks, the Air Force only developed it to keep funding away from the Army's response to the mission, the AH-56 Cheyenne helicopter. Inspired by the biography of a tank-busting German pilot in World War II, the engineering and design of the A-10 fell to Pierre Sprey, a precious civilian who'd enrolled at Yale when he was just 15-years-old, and now, barely 30, was exiled to a Pentagon backwater with little, if any, supervision. The end result was one of the finest military aircraft ever built, a plane essentially constructed around a 19.5-foot, 4,000-pound cannon that fired 30mm depleted uranium bullets at a blistering rate. Looking like it was built from discarded airplane parts, it was probably the ugliest combat aircraft ever built, thus the "Warthog" appellation. But it was also an incredibly reliable ground attack aircraft, beloved by ground troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. Despite repeated attempts to replace it with stealth aircraft and drones, over 280 A-10s remain in service today, serviced by dedicated and imaginative engineers and maintainers, and defended by a fervent cohort of advocates descended from the Military Reform movement. This is the story of intra-service rivalries, Pentagon obsessions with speed and stealth over tactical simplicity, and an aircraft that shows no sign of obsolescence as it nears fifty years in service"-- Provided by publisher.