Flying Officer Gary Martinic, Australian Air Force Cadets
Introduction
BY CONTRAST to weapons development which has occurred progressively over thousands of years over man’s evolutionary history, the pace with which information technology and electronics has advanced has been truly staggering. This state of perpetual evolution within both of these fields, and its union has led us for the first time in our history, to an age which has become known as the ‘age of the machines’ making both cyberwarfare and robotic warfare, or ‘lethality via remote-control’, completely possible.
