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In yesteryears, battlefields were specific, strategically chosen locations and it was on these battlefields that heroes and cowards were born. With the exception of ambushes, wars of the past have a sense of locality about them. On the contrary, today’s armed forces no longer have that luxury. The battle can easily start in tropical jungles, move towards an urban attack on a city and might end with an ICBM attack from space. While definitely a frightening scenario, the truth is that battle lines no longer exist and conflicts may erupt at any place and time.
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Nath, V., Levinson, S.E. (2014). Introduction. In: Autonomous Military Robotics. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05606-7_1
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