drones – Cannonball Read 17

From the Iliad to tomorrow

Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and Future by Mairghread Scott

May 18, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The joke is: Having computers ask if we are human, is the greatest irony. However, in this book, you will learn a robot has a computer, but a computer is not a robot. Therefore, that statemen is not exactly true. Along with other facts on robots, Mairghread Scott shows us the history of robots from the Iliad to tomorrow. We follow how the world of science fiction became science fact in Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and Future. While also including drones, that information is […]

2021 Army Professional Development #1

Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn

June 3, 2021 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

This book was recommended to me by a good friend at work. Coincidently, I have a different book called Kill Chain on my to-read list as well which made it a little confusing and I had to confirm that this was the one he wanted me to read. My friend and I are both in the Army but these days I work the Army equivalent of a desk job. I am a data analyst for the Army now after nearly a decade on the bomb […]

Army Chief of Staff Reading List

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H.R. McMaster

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy

December 16, 2019 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I read all three of these books as they are on the Army Chief of Staff Reading List. That list is a bi-annual list the highest ranking member of the Army publishes for professional development. Sometimes the lists are highly curated and you can see the purpose and direction intended. Sometimes, they are just a huge collection of non-fiction books that people have been told to read for years. The current list has 120+ books and seems to have no defining theme. The books in […]

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