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A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare--and why we must resist.War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. Gonzlez gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. Gonzlez, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare.With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations--and the cultural assumptions theyre built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the militarys use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. Gonzlez also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the worlds biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future--where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.

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War Virtually
War Virtually
THE QUEST TO AUTOMATE CONFLICT, MILITARIZE DATA, AND PREDICT THE FUTURE

Roberto J. Gonzlez

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

University of California Press

Oakland, California

2022 by Roberto J. Gonzlez

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gonzlez, Roberto J. (Roberto Jess), 1969 author.

Title: War virtually: the quest to automate conflict, militarize data, and predict the future/Roberto J. Gonzlez.

Description: Oakland, California: University of California Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021045189 (print) | LCCN 2021045190 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520384767 (hardback) | ISBN 9780520384774 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH : Artificial intelligenceMilitary applications. | Military art and scienceAutomation.

Classification: LCC UG 479 . G 66 2022 (print) | LCC UG 479 (ebook) | DDC 355.8dc23/eng/20211006

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021045189

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021045190

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Terms and Abbreviations

AFRL

Air Force Research Laboratory (US military research lab)

AI

Artificial intelligence

API

Application programming interface, used for developing software apps

ARE

Alternate reality experience

ARG

Alternate reality game

ARL

Army Research Laboratory (US military research lab)

ARPA

Advanced Research Projects Agency (US government agency, 195872; renamed DARPA)

AS

Autonomous system

ASM

Autonomous Squad Member (military robot)

ATAK

Android Tactical Assault Kit (US Air Force Research Laboratory smartphone app)

ATM

Automated teller machine

BASIC

Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (computer programming language)

BDI

Behavioural Dynamics Institute (nonprofit research organization)

CENTCOM

Central Command (one the US DoDs nine unified military commands)

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency (US government agency)

COIN

Counterinsurgency

CPI

Committee on Public Information (US government agency, 191719)

CTTSO

Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (US government office)

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US DoD organization)

DIB

Defense Innovation Board (independent advisory board to US DoD)

DIU

Defense Innovation Unit (US DoD organization)

DIUx

Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (US DoD organization; precursor to DIU)

DoD

Department of Defense (US government department)

DSB

Defense Science Board (US DoD civilian advisory board on science and technology)

EMIC

Emic Training to Improve Cross-cultural Prediction (DARPA program)

ENIAC

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

EOD

Explosive ordnance disposal

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation (US law enforcement agency)

FS3

Forensic Social Science Supercollider (DARPA program)

GCP

Google Cloud Platform

GPS

Global positioning system

GSR

Global Science Research (data science company)

HFE

Human factors engineering

HSCB

Human Social Cultural and Behavioral Modeling (US DoD research program)

HTS

Human Terrain System (US Army program)

IARPA

Intelligence Advanced Research Programs Agency (US government agency)

ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US government agency)

ICRAC

International Committee for Robot Arms Control (non-governmental organization)

IED

Improvised explosive device

IJOP

Integrated Joint Operations Platform (Chinese state surveillance system)

INSIGHT

Integrative System for Enhancing Fluid Intelligence through Human Cognitive Activity, Fitness, High-definition Transcranial Direct-current Brain Stimulation, and Nutritional Intervention (IARPA-funded research project)

ISAF

International Security and Assistance Force (NATO-led multilateral military alliance in Afghanistan)

ISIS

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

JEDI

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (US DoD cloud storage program)

JEDI MIND

Joint Estimation of Deception Intent via Multisource Integration of Neuropsychological Discriminators (IARPA-funded research project)

JSOC

Joint Special Operations Command (US military joint command of SOCOM, Special Operations Command)

MARGARET

Multidimensional Algorithm Generated Anthropological Recording and Ethnographic Tool (DARPA-funded project)

MCWL

Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (US military research lab)

MDDS

Massive Digital Data Systems (US Intelligence Community program)

MEMEX

DARPA program

ML

Machine learning

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US government agency)

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (multilateral military alliance)

NGO

Non-governmental organization

NGS2

Next Generation Social Science (DARPA program)

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology (US government lab and agency)

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory (US military research lab)

NSA

National Security Agency (US government agency)

NSF

National Science Foundation (US government agency)

NSI

National Security Innovations (defense analytics company)

OCEAN

Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism; also called the Big Five personality traits

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