Weapons Systems

A weapon, arm or armament is any implement or device that can be used with the intent to inflict damage or harm. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare. In broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a tactical, strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary or enemy target. While ordinary objects – sticks, rocks, bottles, chairs, vehicles – can be used as weapons, many are expressly designed for the purpose; these range from simple implements such as clubs, axes and …

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CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 16 December 2024 English

student Abbreviations at the University of Cambridge and a research affiliate with the Centre for the Study of Existential 4G fourth-generation Risk (University of Cambridge) and the Institute for Law …

the regulation of AI LAWS lethal autonomous weapons systems use by governments in Africa. She has previously attacks (Brundage et al. 2018, 18). This → weapons systems, making them more diffusion, coupled with the difficult to trace these actions back autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) have to perpetrators (ibid., 19). Lastly


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 29 October 2024 English

then be complemented with real-world data for the contextual evaluation of the models, thus 8 EC, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April …

(Annex B).” GOV.UK, October 25. www.gov.uk/ Weapons Systems.” CCW/GGE.1/2023/2, May 23. government/pub


CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 25 October 2024 English

The objective of the event was to address the future of land warfare and its implications for the Ca- nadian Army. [...] Topics covered during the event included the lessons …

may be addressed ment’s procurement of major weapons systems simply by repurposing and cross training CAF


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 23 October 2024 English

To that end, Patrick Allen (1995, 22) states that, “The air-to- and the Limitations of ground assessment processes need to be sensitive to the posture and type of the attacked …

the logic of land wars before examining how weapons systems or any other implement of AI will factor into


Wilson Center Canada · 18 October 2024 English

Beijing viewed the statement as “a slap in our face” that laid bare the divergent at- titudes of China and the Soviet Union to the world.5 A cable sent from …

Russia has served as the primary supplier of weapons systems for both Vietnam and India. The Soviet Union/Russia’s production and licensed production of vari- ous weapons systems in India, as noted by PLA scholars, has significantly allocate more financial resources to procure weapons systems from Russia that can be used to confront China


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 5 September 2024 English

Given the forth by military applications of AI has prompted breadth of the current and potential effects of governments and international organizations to military AI applications, some governments and formulate …

international organizations, governments and Weapons Systems defence departments across the globe. He has actors voluntarily develop on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE international norms for a number of reasons dual-use; they are the field as part of autonomous weapons systems valuable in both civilian and military industries Weapons 5 CARICOM Declaration on Autonomous Weapons Systems 2023 Declaration 6 (Summary) NATO Artificial Reviewed Malta CARICOM Declaration on Autonomous Weapons Systems Brazil Venezuela Honduras Peru Panama El Salvador


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 5 September 2024 English

Finally, having established that the doctrines of In February 2023, the Netherlands hosted the command and state responsibility are crucial to inaugural global summit on the Responsible Use maintaining accountability …

Accountability 4 The Compatiblity of Autonomous Weapons Systems with IHL 8 Accountability for IHL Violations expert in national security law. AWS autonomous weapons systems Leah has written extensively on the law as She serves on the LAWS lethal autonomous weapons systems editorial board of the Journal of National most significant impact of the February 2023 weapons systems (LAWS) and decision support REAIM summit was Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, 8 August 2022, UN Doc 2014 meeting of the


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 30 August 2024 English

it is a measure of all the gaps where accountability is A similar metaphor might be helpful for our applied in practice — of all the ways that the chain …

Governmental Experts on LAWS (lethal autonomous weapons systems) in 2018, indicated that “human-machine touchpoints” Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, UN Doc CCW/GGE.1/2018/3 (2018), online: <https://


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 7 August 2024 English

The number of people who joined the communist parties which were in the vanguard of the fight against Nazi-fascism and militarist Japan is a significant indication of the peoples' enthusiasm …

billion over 20 years to acquire new critical weapons systems, replenish stocks of ammunition, and improve


Mulroney Institute of Government · 25 June 2024 English

“Whereas the politics of the Cold War dictated that the Arctic region be treated as part of a broader strategy of exclusion and confrontation,” the policy statement asserted, “now the …

thought possible because of the lack of complex weapons systems and associated command and control suites (“Concept


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