Description
Modern warfare contains a wide variety of networks that are reshaping battle. Whether through satellites, UAVs, latent sensors, automation and AI, the ability to sense and make sense is becoming fundamental to the data driven era of modern warfare. This paper will look at how militaries are seeking to enhance their ability for sensing and sense-making that puts the network at the centre of modern warfare. Relying on a constitutionalist theory born from the post-human politics literature, the paper seeks to understand how networks reroute the combat experience and battle behaviours. This project is part of a wider project on 'digits at war' which seeks to introduce post-humanism as a way to interpret the way that mechanical constitutions shape political behaviours. Using Ruth Miller's critique of 'stalled traffic and faulty networks', this project seeks to place warfare within the mechanical worlds of networks.
