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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: The shifting battlefield: technology, tactics, and the risk of blurring lines in warfare
Description: The accelerating integration of emerging technologies into armed conflict is transforming not only the tools of war, but its tactics, geography, participants and impact. Technological developments – from commercial drones to artificial intelligence, electronic warfare to the military use of civilian infrastructure – risk undermining boundaries between military and civilian domains. These changes challenge long-held assumptions about the character and conduct of warfare, how wars are fought in practice, while raising legal and humanitarian concerns for the protection of civilians and the preservation of the principle of distinction.
In this post, Ruben Stewart, ICRC Adviser on New Technologies of Warfare, explores the driv...