Artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare at a pace that outstrips both regulation and public awareness. Through documented cases — from the IDF's use of AI systems in Gaza to the recent strikes on Iran — the piece traces how automation introduces a dangerous moral distance into life-and-death decisions. Structural risks such as the "black box effect," automation bias, and compressed decision-making timelines make accountability increasingly difficult to locate. Behind these technologies lies a deeply political landscape, where Pentagon contracts are shaped as much by campaign donations as by national security logic. When the decision to kill is distributed across code, data, and command chains, does responsibility still exist?

La 62ª edizione della Munich Security Conference 2026 rappresenta un momento rivelatore per comprendere la trasformazione dell’ordine internazionale. Tra tensioni transatlantiche, autonomia strategica europea e crisi del diritto internazionale, emerge un sistema sempre più diviso tra frammentazione e ricerca di nuovi equilibri.

Dopo più di cinquant’anni l’uomo tornerà sulla Luna, questa volta in nuova veste. Da cielo stellato, lo spazio sta sempre di più diventando terreno di scontro dove le grandi potenze lottano per la superiorità strategica ed economica, mentre agenzie private si ritagliano sempre più grandi margini di autonomia.

The geopolitical chess match of the 21st century is played in the Pacific: lost in the immense blue of the Ocean, the United States gently cuddles its overseas territories, aiming to foster international relations in the area with other potential giants of the sea.
Those micro-projections in the region show the world how crucial it is for a State to maintain extraterritorial military bases in a hyper-globalized world.

As technology has advanced, the means to collect, store, and share information in digital formats have increased exponentially. This development has profoundly reshaped the investigation and prosecution of mass atrocities, as digital evidence progressively informs how international crimes are documented, reconstructed, and assessed before international criminal tribunals (Freeman, 2017). New fact-finding methods, including reliance on digital open-source information and user-generated content (UGC), assist international courts and tribunals in reconstructing events and building narratives of international criminal accountability (De Arcos Tejerixo, 2023). At the same time, the growing reliance on digital material presents significant challenges. User-generated digital evidence is particularly vulnerable to manipulation, decontextualisation, and loss of provenance, especially when it is circulated through multiple intermediaries or generated by civilians using non-professional devices (Al-Biller & al., 2024)

Across social media, people are claiming, “You met me at a very Chinese time of my life,” while engaging in stereotypically Chinese activities like eating dim sum or wearing the viral Adidas Chinese jacket. So, one may ask, did China’s soft power and cultural influence have finally won the cultural war against the West ? As we are starting to doubt the cultural supremacy of Western values like democracy, freedom, and prosperity, it is interesting to ask when and why everybody turned Chinese.