Project Maven and the Rise of AI Warfare: How Autonomous Targeting, Drone Intelligence, and Military Algorithms Are Changing Combat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197231611)

Project Maven and the Rise of AI Warfare
How Autonomous Targeting, Drone Intelligence, and Military Algorithms Are Changing Combat

The battlefield has changed. The soldier pulling the trigger is no longer always human.
In Project Maven and the Rise of AI Warfare, author Sylas Verin delivers a landmark investigation into one of the most consequential and least understood revolutions in modern military history. From the classified corridors of the Pentagon to the engineering campuses of Silicon Valley, this book traces how artificial intelligence moved from a commercial technology experiment into the operational heart of the world's most powerful military machine.
At the center of this story is Project Maven, the United States Department of Defense program that ignited a global reckoning about the role of algorithms in warfare, triggering employee revolts at major technology companies, accelerating an international arms race, and raising urgent questions about accountability, civilian harm, and the future of human judgment in combat.
This book examines the full scope of that revolution with unflinching clarity. Readers will explore how drone surveillance networks evolved from remote-controlled aircraft into thinking autonomous systems, how algorithmic targeting is compressing the time between detection and lethal strike, why training data bias produces deadly operational errors, and how the global competition for military AI dominance is destabilizing international security in ways that existing governance frameworks cannot contain.
Project Maven and the Rise of AI Warfare confronts the precision myth, the accountability vacuum, the ethics washing concealing continued weapons development, and the urgent absence of binding international law capable of governing autonomous weapons before their consequences become irreversible.
Written for policy professionals, defense analysts, technology ethicists, and informed general readers, this is the essential guide to understanding the defining military transformation of the twenty-first century.

Readers of this book will discover:

• How Project Maven reshaped the relationship between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon
• Why autonomous targeting systems create accountability gaps existing law cannot close
• How civilian populations bear the hidden costs of algorithmic warfare
• What meaningful governance of military AI would actually require

The machines are deciding. The question is whether humanity still can.

Author: Sylas Verin
ISBN-13: 9798197231611
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2026
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d