Ethics in Future Land Warfare - CHAP Joshua Bouzanquet, CAPT Matthew Malcolm and WO2 Tony Campbell

'With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we can now expect Large Scale Combat in Future Warfare' CAPT Malcolm delves into what we might expect with LSC being one of the main strategies of integrated deterrence. This brings together Allies, Partners and Industry to achieve the desired effect; we must think beyond the land domain and even outside of Army or the military, as we are now working as part of an integrated force. He also explains that with new developments in technology (automated systems, AI and others) which also affect the way that we fight, each of these considerations brings up ethical questions in the way that we fight. 

CHAP Bouzanquet adds his perspective on ethical decision making with the acceleration towards automation: as we increase the range of our capabilities, we decrease the response time that we have to make an ethical decision, which in turn increases the lethality and the effects through new and emerging technologies. The choke point is going to be the ethical and legal questions that come into play with these new processes. ‘How do we ensure that we are not creating an ethical lag in our processes?’

WO2 Campbell adds with this improved level of technologies, we could be in a whole other country and ‘still be witness to traumatic events and then…jump down for a schooner at the Seaview with our mates’. Realistically, we have to be able to empower everyone, through good education and mentorship, to make decisions within the battlespace that are the right decision on the ground.

Join CAPT Todd Lempa as he interviews WO2 Tony Campbell, S7 at ADFA; CHAP Joshua Bouzanquet, padre at RMC; and CAPT Matt Malcolm, PhD in Philosophy and bringing an academic perspective to the ethics discussion. 

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