War is changing, and fast.
Ukraine is inching towards robot-on-robot fighting.
Drones have remade the battlefield, including in the current Gulf war.
AI may yet take life and death decisions out of human hands.
Just this week, the Pope warned that AI had to be disarmed.
Today we're talking about the future of war, just what is it good for?
I'm Adam Roberts, the Foreign Editor at The Economist, from our studios in sweltering London.
Welcome to The Insider.
Well, with me in the studio is Shashank Joshi, our Defense Editor of the past eight years.
Welcome Shashank.
You've been covering defense for a particularly turbulent period.
Thanks, Adam.
It's been turbulent, busy, very warlike.
When I started eight years ago, I couldn't have imagined we'd see
this quantity and diversity of wars, including some very big ones.
So, it's been a remarkable period to be in this position.
Absolutely.
And joining us on the line from Jerusalem is Anshel Pfeffer, our Israel Correspondent.
Anshel, we hear that in the past few days,
Israel has intensified its strikes despite a ceasefire in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah.