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100	1		_aCALCARA Antonio
245			_aContractors or robots? Future warfare between privatization and automation/ _cAntonio Calcara
260			_c2022
520			_aThe article provides an original analysis on the interplay between the privatization of security tasks and technologically driven automation and investigates their impact on the defence industry and the armed forces. These two sets of actors are arguably among the most impacted by the multi-faceted relations between privatization and automation. Technological progress creates the need for contractors to maintain and operate platforms that militaries do not have expertise to run. However, technologically driven automation - often developed in value chains far removed from the military-industrial pipeline - might also replace private contractors in non-core security tasks. The possibility to employ automated and autonomous systems will hence impact on the already delicate balance between private contractors and publicly-funded armed forces.
650			_aARMED FORCES _xAUTOMATION _xCONTRACTORS _xDEFENCE INDUSTRY _xPRIVATIZATION _xSECURITY
773			_aSmall Wars & Insurgencies: Vol. 33, Nos.1-2, January-March 2022, pp. 250-271 (97)
598			_aSECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592318.2021.1957534 _zClick here for full text
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