Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory



February 15, 2018

Advances in autonomous robotics, cyber weapons, and space enable militaries to combat the most serious threats to international peace and security with more precision — putting fewer soldiers in harm’s way to advance US national security goals. Nevertheless, the rapid development of these new technologies puts militaries and civilian leaders in uncharted territory. Critics argue that new weaponry will tempt states to use military power too readily and undermine the accepted laws and norms of war. In Striking Power, Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo argue that the United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones, autonomous robots, and cyber weapons. New military technologies, they maintain, better advance the goals of the rules of war by enhancing precision, reducing destruction, and allowing clearer communications between nations at war.

John Yoo is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His latest book is Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War. Professor Yoo was an official in the U.S. Department of Justice during and after the September 11 attacks; general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and a Supreme Court law clerk. He directs Berkeley Law’s Korea Law Center and its Public Law and Policy program. He regularly contributes to the nation’s leading scholarly law journals and newspaper editorial pages. Professor Yoo graduated from Yale Law School, and summa cum laude from Harvard College.


How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) sponsored this talk entitled “How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War” by John Yoo on Feb. 15, 2018.

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