Agence France-Presse April 20, 2025
A new era of war: “This is the future,”

John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the US military’s Modern War Institute at West Point said “This is the future,”
Many “have been experimenting with it, but nobody has seen direct deployment into active modern combat,” he added. “It is very unique.”

But beyond ethical and legal drawbacks to such advanced technology, there is also the need for an overriding human presence to make decisions particularly in unusual situations.

The October 7, 2023 attack — when some Hamas terrorists breached the high-security border to invade southern Israel, where it killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages starting the Gaza war — was a disastrous example for that, said Tal Mimran of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mimran, a lecturer and researcher of international law who has been closely following the Israeli military’s technological developments
1. “October 7 showed us that you can build a wall that may cost $1 billion,
2. but if you do not patrol the border then someone will infiltrate your country,”


“We must take note of the opportunities and of the risks of technology,” he said.
“This is the era in which artificial intelligence is exploding into our lives, and it is only natural that it will also have a manifestation in the security field.”