The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory
On a chilly morning in November 1911, Lt. Giulio Gavotti, an Italian pilot, leaned out from the cockpit of his monoplane over the oases and farmlands of modern-day Libya and tossed four small grenades onto an encampment of Ottoman soldiers. Widely covered in the international press, the bombardment was ultimately ineffective and caused no casualties. Yet it is acknowledged today as the start of a revolution in military affairs — the first recorded instance of explosives that were dropped from a powered aircraft during an armed conflict, ushering in the age of Guernica, Dresden, and Hiroshima. More than a century The post The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory appeared first on War on the Rocks.
On a chilly morning in November 1911, Lt. Giulio Gavotti, an Italian pilot, leaned out from the cockpit of his monoplane over the oases and farmlands of modern-day Libya and tossed four small grenades onto an encampment of Ottoman soldiers. Widely covered in the international press, the bombardment was ultimately ineffective and caused no casualties. Yet it is acknowledged today as the start of a revolution in military affairs — the first recorded instance of explosives that were dropped from a powered aircraft during an armed conflict, ushering in the age of Guernica, Dresden, and Hiroshima. More than a century
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