Wars between countries are the most obvious sign that order has broken down. Such wars can be and are different in motive, purposes, means, duration, scale, cost, and scope. Feeding into this dynamic—and on occasion serving as a trigger of war in its own right—is both the rise and the fall of countries and empires. Countries, such as Nazi Germany a

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These developments represent a colossal transfer of power away from traditional states and militaries toward anyone with the capacity, and motivation, to deploy these devices. There is no obvious reason why a single operator, with enough wherewithal, could not control a swarm of thousands of drones. A single AI program can write as much text as all

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