How to win a war by Phillips Payson O'Brien (Lesson 4)

From World War II, to Ukraine, to the Future of War
What we are seeing in Ukraine today is both quite different technologically from World War II, but with important similarities in process. The growth in UAV technology, for instance, and Artificial Intelligence, has opened up a future of autonomous vehicles defining future combat. On the other hand, certain basic rules on range, accuracy and mass are the same as they have always been. This lecture will speculatively explore what has stayed the same in war since World War II, and what is changing in front of our very eyes.
Chaire organisée pour la onzième fois par la Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales de l’ULB, grâce à la générosité de feu le Baron Jean-Charles VELGE, décédé le 29 mai 2010, qui tenait à honorer la mémoire de Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen, historien de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale.
Jeudi 21 mars 2024, à l’Université libre de Bruxelles.