This is really very good, especially on battlefield intelligence & the question of fusing different data sources to facilitate the process of targeting enemy tanks, artillery etc.
This level of fusion involves a lot of systems integration which makes it even more impressive.
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This level of fusion involves a lot of systems integration which makes it even more impressive.
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https://twitter.com/MarkUrban01/status/1524708620314759168
I write about intelligence fusion & its relationship to the information ecology in Ukraine over 3 short papers.
This one is specifically focused on how smartphones are being used to facilitate information collection for Ukrainian targeting activities.
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academia.edu/76011845/The_S…
This one is specifically focused on how smartphones are being used to facilitate information collection for Ukrainian targeting activities.
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academia.edu/76011845/The_S…
What @andrewhoskins & I do in #radicalwar is to pull this through into wider changes in society. In many ways social changes in how we engage with each other through our connected devices are driving battlefield changes.
This is a SOCIETAL change as much as it is military.
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This is a SOCIETAL change as much as it is military.
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Not only are smartphones helping to target enemies (they're the device that makes it possible to use civilian drone tech for targeting purposes - see below) they are also the technologies that are framing how war is propagandised.
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https://twitter.com/warmatters/status/1504192878284877829?s=20&t=eLRY_pzuwMOip4SKk1dMCQ
Video feed from drones are recorded on our phones and then broadcast via social media back to us wherever we are in the world.
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So the one thing that @MarkUrban01 didn't cover off but could have, is how the connected battlefield brings the war to everyone.
The kicker is that it does this asynchronously depending on what drops into your social media feed.
So it is difficult to make sense of the war.
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The kicker is that it does this asynchronously depending on what drops into your social media feed.
So it is difficult to make sense of the war.
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In #radicalwar we try to explore how we to make sense of these images.
Our argument is that we draw back on a sedimented & received past. On our shared understanding about war.
In @MarkUrban01's film the reference was the First World War.
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Our argument is that we draw back on a sedimented & received past. On our shared understanding about war.
In @MarkUrban01's film the reference was the First World War.
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But as he also shows, this war is nothing like the FWW and very much the most connected war EVER.
That implies to me that we need to be really, really careful about the lessons we might draw from this conflict.
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That implies to me that we need to be really, really careful about the lessons we might draw from this conflict.
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