June 13, 2019

by J. Zhanna Malekos Smith 14 June 2019 Can a victor truly be crowned in the great power competition for artificial intelligence? According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, “whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” But the life of a state, much like that of a human being, is … Continue reading “Ethics for the AI-Enabled Warfighter – The Human ‘Warrior-in-the-Design’”

August 15, 2018

Anticipating war is out of fashion, yet the potential destruction and impact on global society of a major war are huge.   By James M R Thorp   Back in February, Elisabeth Braw wrote an article for POLITICO titled, ‘Europe isn’t ready to face modern threats’. Braw’s case is that NATO is ‘preparing for the … Continue reading “Europe’s Greatest Gamblers: Anticipating Wars of the Future and Why European Leaders Are Choosing to Ignore Such Possibilities”

October 10, 2016

Reviewed by: Andrea Varsori Rupert Wieloch, Belfast to Benghazi: Untold challenges of war, (Cirencester: Mereo Books), 2016; ISBN-13: 978-1861515667 War is a notoriously complex event. It impacts the life of thousands of individuals, each of which with her own different perspective on the conflict. For this reason, personal records are invaluable in helping to grasp the … Continue reading “Book Review: Belfast to Benghazi”

April 4, 2016

By: Cheng Lai Ki Photo credit: Diaz,J. ‘Russia is developing a drone army – including amphibious models’, SPLOID, January 16, 2014. This is the first of a series of articles we will be featuring on Strife in the coming week looking at the role of Proxy Warfare in the 21st century by Series Editor Cheng … Continue reading “PROXY Capabilities – A Renewed Strategy of the 21st Century”

March 18, 2014

By Louis Mignot: Josho Brouwers, Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece. Rotterdam: Karwansaray Publishers, 2013. Pp. 208. €29,95/ £25.07. ISBN: 978-94-90258-07-8. Brouwers’s Henchmen of Ares traces the development of warrior culture from the thirteenth to the fifth century BC. By using Homeric epics and other near-contemporary accounts in tandem with archaeological finds, … Continue reading “Henchmen of Ares”