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Sensing Our Way In The World
On war robots, newborn care, and a holistic view of perceiving machines.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
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March 2023
The War on Terror and the everyday infrastructure of oblivion
An accidentally timely review of Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
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Kelsey D. Atherton
February 2023
Balloon Trials
Five or six ways to talk about identified flying objects.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
Fear Squads And Tread Naught
Armor and not-quite-armor in modern warfare
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Kelsey D. Atherton
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December 2022
Tarkin, Revisited
Andor and the materiel of Empire
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Kelsey D. Atherton
The Tarkin Doctrine
My chapter from “Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict.”
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Kelsey D. Atherton
The Dead Speak!
An overdue return, and a tease of more to come
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Kelsey D. Atherton
July 2022
CHIPS Fall
Revisiting Biden's "Arsenal of American Prosperity"
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Kelsey D. Atherton
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May 2022
Duel Use
Consumer electronics at war
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Kelsey D. Atherton
April 2022
Ballistic Path Dependency
Artillery and doctrine in and out of context
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Kelsey D. Atherton
March 2022
February And The Robot Boozehounds of Gimmick Marketing
A subscriber-only update on what I've been up to, and the newsletters I wrote but forgot to share last month.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
February 2022
Funeral Rituals For Robot Dogs
Humans at war will inscribe meaning into the deaths of battlefield companion machines. We already do it for animals.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
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