Recommended Innovation Articles (and Commentary) 16: ‘Fighting Artificial Intelligence Battles’- Latest Australian Defence Force Thinking

Ben Zweibelson, PhD
3 min readMar 10, 2023
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Today’s article is a bit on the long side (a 100 page monograph), but worth printing and reading at your leisure. The good news is that there is NO PAYWALL and you can download it right here:

The author, Dr. Peter Layton, is a friend and outstanding military academic from “down under”, and produced this monograph for the ADF. This white paper is titled “Fighting Artificial Intelligence Battles: Operational Concepts for Future AI-Enabled Wars”- and is Joint Studies Paper Series №4 for the Australian Department of Defence, publishing in 2021. So, this is quite recent and most applicable to contemporary AI, human-machine teaming, and related discussions across the international defense enterprise.

This monograph walks readers through the contemporary AI debate in future warfare, with a nice introduction on what AI is, how it features “humans in the loop, on the loop, or outside the loop”, and then frames the AI endeavors of serious…

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Ben Zweibelson, PhD

Philosopher of Conflict; works at U.S. Space Command; All opinions my own!