Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
In this issue:
- Pondering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in warfare, Nathan Orlando explores the crucial role human judgement has played in averting the use of nuclear weapons
· Anwar Mhajne argues that, by cloaking human biases in apparent neutrality, the employment of AI in combat could marginalise moral judgement and critical assessment
· Emile Hokayem assesses that the United States and Israel’s war against Iran could lead all three combatants to claim victory while ending up strategically worse off
· Paul Fraioli observes that the most consuming difficulties with the rise of AI will be social and cultural
· And nine other thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.
To read free articles from the journal, please visit its homepage at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsur20.
Editor: Dr Dana Allin
Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson
Associate Editor: Carolyn West
Editorial Assistant: Anna Gallagher
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
Arvustused
In a world of complex security challenges the need for serious, thoughtful analysis is greater than ever. Survivals combination of elegant writing and rigorous scholarship from the worlds top experts makes it essential reading for both practitioners and academics.
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, War Studies King's College London
Survival 68.2 (AprilMay 2026), pp. 1216
Salvific User Error: A Classical Take on AI and Nuclear Deterrence, by Nathan
Orlando
Regulating Military AI: Gaza and Beyond, by Anwar Mhajne
The War Against Iran, by Emile Hokayem
The Carney Doctrine: Is Canada Breaking with America?, by Seva Gunitsky
Japans Relations with China: A Clash of Core Interests, by Robert Ward
The Second Death of Arms Control, by Andrew C. Winner
Noteworthy: The Final Arbiter?
Running in Circles: How Europes Quest for Autonomy Creates New Dependencies,
by Riccardo Alcaro
Taking Leave: NATOs Command Structure Amid US Disengagement, by John R. Deni
and Mark Webber
South Koreas Ominous Missile Deployments, by Decker Eveleth and Jeffrey
Lewis
The Radicals Dilemma After Civil Wars: Evidence from Syria, by Raphaël
Lefèvre
China, Greece and Port Geopolitics, by John T. Psaropoulos
Critical Minerals and Geo-economic Peril, by Chris Clague
Book Reviews
United States, by David C. Unger
Middle East, by Ray Takeyh
Environment and Resources, by Shiloh Fetzek
Strange Days: AI and the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Fraioli
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a registered charity with offices in Washington, London, Manama, Singapore and Berlin, is the worlds leading authority on politicalmilitary conflict. It is the primary independent source of accurate, objective information on international strategic issues. Publications include The Military Balance, an annual reference work on each nations defence capabilities; The Armed Conflict Survey, an annual review of the worlds active conflicts; Survival, a bimonthly journal on international affairs; Strategic Comments, an online analysis of topical issues in international affairs; and the Adelphi series of books on issues of international security.
