Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

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5 See for example the robots developed by the Japanese-owned, MIT spin-off company, Boston Dynamics: https://www.bostondynamics.com/about(accessed 21 February 2017).For an example of how military technology is envisioned, see the US Defense Department's 'Project Maven', which is developing an algorithmic form of warfare where '[p]eople and computers will work symbiotically to increase the ability of weapon systems to detect objects'.United States Department of Defense, Project Maven to Deploy Computer Algorithms to War Zone by Year's End (online) https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1254719/projectmaven-to-deploy-computer-algorithms-to-war-zone-by-years-end/(accessed 18 February 2018). 6Drone warfare, for instance, has been shown to cause PTSD in both operators and those living in areas where drones are used to target 'combatants' due to both the sudden aerial method of attack, and the large numbers of 'collateral' civilian casualties involved: see for example the documentary Living Beneath the Drones (2015)