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Full article: https://cepa.org/article/the-challenges-posed-by-21st-century-warfare-and-autonomous-systems/

Gordon B. “Skip” Davis, Jr., a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), and Lorenz Meier, Co-Founder and CEO of Auterion, discusses the increased use of autonomous systems in Ukraine and the need for NATO and its allies to better coordinate policies and capabilities to address challenges from these disruptive technologies.

• Russia’s war in Ukraine has seen increasing use of autonomous and uncrewed systems like drones for reconnaissance, targeting, and attacks. Both sides are using loitering munitions and coordinated drone swarms have demonstrated potential.
• This is accelerating development and widespread adoption of military drones at an unprecedented pace, presenting challenges and opportunities for capabilities.
• NATO is working to address challenges through plans to responsibly develop autonomy while protecting technological advantage. The US is focusing interagency work and decision-making for autonomous systems.
• However, more coordination is needed across NATO allies to meet challenges from these disruptive technologies.
• Key considerations include balancing cost/sophistication, commercial/military cooperation, incorporating systems into integrated defense, preparing for multi-domain use, and updating acquisition processes.
• Allies need new models for domain superiority with autonomous defenses, understand the defining role of software, and require changes to government acquisition to reflect evolutionary technology.

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I have gone over every single approval poll listed on 538 from today until October 12/16th. I pulled out all the polls that have relevant information on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Why? I hate life and myself. But that’s irrelevant. Let’s see what they say, starting at the top and most recent (positive numbers are more pro Israeli position).

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News Nation/Decision Desk HQ

This poll is one of the more striking pieces of evidence. Let me tell you, as someone who watches approval polls like my dog watches squirrels, Biden has not polled positively on an issue other than small culture war issues like trans stuff for a year+.

This poll shows:

Overall Biden approval: [44-56] (-12)

Biden approval on Israel/Hamas: [52-48] (+4) (!!!)

Approval of sending weapons/military aid to Israel: [70-30] (+40)

Right support/Not supportive enough of Israel vs Too supportive: [71.14% – 16%] (+55)

This is the first big issue I’ve seen him positive on in almost a year.

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YouGov Poll

Overall Biden approval: [40-55] (-15)

Biden approval on:

* Economy: [40-53] (-13)

* Immigration: [31-60] (-19)

* National Security: [41-47] (-8)

* Other things: [Below 40] (<-10)

* Israel-Palestine: [38 – 42] (-4) {!!!!}

Israel/Palestine is his strongest issue, by far!

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ANMP

This poll has very biased wording, so take it with a grain of salt. But a couple questions of note:

Israel must do what’s necessary to destroy hamas even though civ casualties are tragic/Civilian deaths are never acceptable, Israel is at fault and should cease military operation: [56-27] (+29)

Dems: Support a dem challenger who blames terrorists OR Support a currrent dem congressperson who blames America and Israel for Terrorist attacks: [67.8-15.5] (+52)

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Gallup

This was the one poll cited to show Biden’s drop in approval, and i will say, the sudden drop among dems is striking, but it’s not too far from previous drops, and it isn’t explained in the poll. The poll doesn’t ask about Israel/Palestine, and we can’t draw that conclusion. And the authors say some misleading stuff to suggest so without evidence, so that really left a sour taste in my mouth reading this… may have been something else though.

They cite a poll that is a few months out of date where Dems were more sympathetic towards Palestinians for the first time to explain the drop. This is very misleading because polls that I cite later show that that sympathy completely flipped after the terrorist attack. This has been consistently shown. However, this is one piece of evidence to consider that younger dems aren’t so on-board with pro-Israel policies as older generations (they appear evenly split). But do these voters vote?

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Suffolk

Support/Oppose military aid to Israel: [58-43] (+15)

If you look at the crosstabs it even wins among 18-34 y/o: 49-45 (+4). There is a minority of anti-Israel young people, they are very vocal and very loud, but they are a minority still.

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CBS News/YouGov

Overall Biden approval: [40-60] (-20)

Biden approval on:

* Economy: [37-63] (-26)

* Immigration: [32-68] (-36)

* Jobs and employment issues: [44-56] (-12)

* Russia-Ukraine: [44-56] (-12)

* Israel-Palestine: [44-56] (-12)

Not as strong for him as the other polls, but still tied for his strongest issue!

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Quinnipiac University

Indeed, the issue of support for Israel is one of Biden’s strongest. More voters, polled by Quinnipiac, approve of Biden’s response to Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel (42%) and his policy towards Israel overall (42%) than disapprove (37% and 39% respectively).

It’s one of his strongest issues among voters. The same can be said of his policy on Russia’s war on Ukraine, which is another subject of Thursday night’s speech.

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I came into this to prove that, overall, this issue doesn’t hurt Biden much (and compared to the economy, I still believe it doesn’t have much impact). But the evidence is clear to me that, at this point, this issue helps him, which is the opposite of the narrative you hear from lefties on twitter. I get it, they truly believe that getting Biden to withdraw support for Israel is the right thing to do, and threatening his election and approval is the way to do that. But when you look at the data, they are just plain wrong – Israel is a winning issue for Biden.

Posting in a couple different subreddits, as I don’t know which is the best place to get an answer. I’ve been looking for books, papers, or scholarly articles about modern Ukranian history to get a better understanding of current events. Basically anything more substantial than 5-minute summaries on CNN or the like. Does anyone have recommendations? Specifically looking to learn more about the Donbas war and the Revolution of Dignity, but I’ll take anything you guys think is relevant.

edit: thank you all for the recommendations! got a lot of good-looking stuff to go through.

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