Weapons Systems
A weapon, arm or armament is any implement or device that can be used with the intent to inflict damage or harm. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare. In broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a tactical, strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary or enemy target. While ordinary objects – sticks, rocks, bottles, chairs, vehicles – can be used as weapons, many are expressly designed for the purpose; these range from simple implements such as clubs, axes and …
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Quincy Institute · 16 March 2023 English
military’s activities in other regional countries where relations are normalized, and the implementation of certain steps to ensure the degradation of ISIS in the short–term, the technical and organizational development …
night–vision devices, and other sensitive weapons systems. The Department of Defense should consider …
CASS: Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies · 16 March 2023 English
The arms technology race in LAWS, particularly between the United States and China, is reflective of the fact that a ban on such systems will not be in the offing …
Robots: How to Regulate Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Ukraine and Libya,” Foreign Policy, May … com/2022/05/11/killer- robots-lethal-autonomous-weapons-systems-ukraine-libya-regulation/. 5 Umbrello, Torres … 28 Burgess Laird, “The Risks of Autonomous Weapons Systems for Crisis Stability and Conflict Escalation … rand.org/blog/2020/06/the-risks-of-autonomous-weapons-systems-for-crisis.html. 29 Olivia Solon, “US Rejects … Modernization and Perceptions of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems,” Cornell International Affairs Review 15, …
IFRI: Institut Français des Relations Internationales · 15 March 2023 English
The war in Ukraine is a reminder of the place of attrition from high-intensity conflict in European armies that have been cut to the bone after three decades of budget …
study focuses on the issue of stockpiles of weapons systems and vehicles. The very complex and highly …
Atlantic Council · 14 March 2023 English
Looking at decades of US support and operations in the Gulf and recognizing a continued, arguably growing, air and maritime threat from Iran, the Atlantic Council Gulf Security Task Force …
Defenses 6 ATLANTIC COUNCIL nature of these new weapons systems and the realities imposed by the region’s …
Heritage Foundation · 13 March 2023 English
It is therefore very much in the interests of the United States to deter the use of nuclear weapons, because the more those weapons are used and the more such …
destabilizing the world by developing new weapons systems,8 and as threatening Russia’s national security …
AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 13 March 2023 English
China seeks to gain full control of Taiwan through three distinct but interrelated campaigns: forceful persuasion, coercion, and compellence. American policy’s focus on compellence marginalizes strategies that counter China’s persuasion …
ports for some claimed contraband—advanced weapons systems, perhaps. Beijing could similarly insist on …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 9 March 2023 English
Bottom Line Washington is increasingly concerned that China will invade Taiwan at some point in the foreseeable future. Xi Jinping views “reunifying” Taiwan with China as an existential task for …
delivery are the norm for transfers of US weapons systems.” The “norm” is �ne in periods of non-urgency …
IFRI: Institut Français des Relations Internationales · 9 March 2023 English
France has a historical presence in the Middle East, where it has many interests to defend: the fight against terrorism, the promotion of the arms industry, the dissemination of humanitarian …
(SOFRESA) (French Company for the Exportation of Weapons Systems to the Middle East) was founded in 1974, coinciding …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 2 March 2023 English
The document begins with the IAF’s transition The biggest challenge faced by air power across to an aerospace power due to the air and space the world is its complexity …
India 2023 their rivals’ surveillance and weapons systems or Aksheev Thakur | 17 Feb 2023 help intercept …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 2 March 2023 English
We are publishing Raisina Files 2023 in what could be a year that shapes the rest of the century. The energy of a post-pandemic world is palpable, even infectious, as …
scenario, Ukraine receives sufficient heavy weapons systems and ammunition and is able to push back Russian … Ukraine becomes too slow in acquiring heavy weapons systems, while Russia, despite comprehensive Western …
