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At the forefront of a game changing debate army of none engages military history global policy and cutting edge science to argue that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane but without surrendering human judgment when the choice is life or death there is no replacement for the human heart. Unsurprisingly some non profit organizations and smaller states strive for deliberately banning fully autonomous weapons due to what they consider the accountability gap in their performance think for example about crisis stability escalation control and war termination. Army of none unpacks the concept of autonomy with clarity if autonomy is merely the ability to find select and engage targets without active human involvement after launch then the us has operated such weapons since the second world war in the form of the radar guided anti ship bombs that sunk several japanese ships p 96. Former army ranger scharre the director of the future of war initiative at the center for a new american security looks at the technical strategic and ethical questions raised by autonomous weapons which are closer to reality than many civilians may realizemechanical weapons go back at least as far as the civil war era gatling gun which