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AI is ushering in a new era of warfare defined by chip power, making warfare more lethal, faster and rapidly scalable. In the past the neophytes in warfare studies have been using the terms like nature, grammar and character of warfare rather loosely and most of the time interchangeably. Nothing however could be farther from the truth. All three terms have distinct meaning. The nature of war is defined by Clausewitz as the use of violence to attain a political purpose and is influenced by the interplay of politics, emotion and chance. Till the time any one element of the trinity does not get changed, the nature doesn't change.
Since antiquity many changes in tactics and technology have occurred but none has so far altered the nature of war. The character of war means conduct of warfare within certain ethical and human defined boundaries e.g. total war, limited war and asymmetric wars.
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