Automation of warfare is irreversible. Laws and methods must change: War should no longer mean death.
2022
We founded Warmony to ask a counterintuitive, but urgent question:
Already today, machines can act faster, see more precisely, and respond more accurately than humans. We stand at a crossroads:
either we rush into a future of increasingly asymmetrical conflicts — where human soldiers are hunted by superior autonomous systems — or we remove humans from the battlefield entirely, and declare that every victim, every war casualty, is a war crime, whether combatant or not. Now everyone is a civilian.
Autonomous sensing, targeting, and decision systems already operate faster than human control loops.
Autonomous sensing, targeting, and decision systems already operate faster than human control loops.
Each new battlefield innovation — from automatic counter-fire to drone swarms and algorithmic reconnaissance — tightens a feedback cycle that no human chain of command can match. This automation cannot be undone; it can only be governed.
We stand at a crossroads: which of the futures of war will become reality:
Humans remain on the battlefield, facing autonomous weapons that never tire and never miss. Conflicts become increasingly one-sided: soldiers are hunted, not fighting. The line between combatant and civilian dissolves as machines extend surveillance and strike capability beyond any front line.
Humans are removed from the battlefield entirely. Machine systems engage only other machine systems, under auditable, transparent rules. Any human casualty — soldier or civilian — becomes a criminal anomaly, triggering automatic investigation and institutional response.
War can be reinvented and transformed into a new deterrence architecture: fully automated, ecologically sustainable, and free from bloodshed.
For thousands of years, humanity has lived under an ethical paradox: in religions and moral systems, killing another person is strictly forbidden — yet in war, killing is institutionalized and even glorified.
In a rapidly militarising world, declaring “stop the war” is not enough. Conflict must be redesigned—into a system where killing is excluded by both code and law.
As autonomous systems take over sensing, targeting, and decision-making, this contradiction can finally be resolved — once we admit: war is no longer a human business.
Core pillars:
Warmony turns this post-lethal logic into institutional structure — so that warfare without killing becomes not just thinkable, but inevitable.
• Machine-only engagement rules
• Global monitoring and auditability
• Legal accountability and transparency
Through these pillars, Warmony works to bind the technological reality of automation to new legal frameworks that define and enforce the limits of legitimate force.
Through these pillars, Warmony works to bind the technological reality of automation to new legal frameworks that define and enforce the limits of legitimate force.
Principles of Operation
Autonomous defensive systems intercept, confine, disable, and expose; they deny lethal outcomes by design. Transparency becomes operational — logs, engagement traces, and forensics are public artefacts. Legal instruments treat lethal force as an abnormal state, triggering immediate institutional response when it appears.
• Interception over destruction — contain, disable, expose.
• Lethality = anomaly — automatic legal response.
• Logs by default — public engagement traces and forensics.
Victory is measured in prevented fatalities, time-to-neutralize threats without loss of life, and the fidelity of post-incident records. Tactical success becomes an index of restraint:
Operational language shifts.
• percentage of engagements resolved without lethal harm
• rate of false positives
• the completeness of evidence chains that allow rapid public audit and redress
Environmental impact is quantified and audited like any other performance metric.
Standardized life-cycle assessments compute:
• Embodied carbon per deployed system (kg CO₂e)
• Raw-material extraction intensity (kg rare materials / unit)
• Operational energy per engagement (kWh / incident)
• E-waste per theater (kg / year)
• Ecological risk score (probability × consequence)
These numbers sit beside human-harm metrics and directly influence procurement, deployment, and scale decisions.
Governance is technical and procedural.
Certification, continuous monitoring, and immutable event logs enable immediate verification. Remedies are procedural rather than political:
• Automatic containment overrides
• Compensation via escrowed compliance funds
• Revocation of privileges for actors failing audits
• Civilian oversight through reproducible, transparent audits
The strategic imagination reorients from attrition to design: who builds the cleanest, most accountable, most auditable defensive architectures? Power is exercised through rules, measurement and enforceable transparency. Killing retreats into statistical irrelevance — anomalies investigated, recorded and penalized — while institutions and technologies reshape the arithmetic of coercion.
Together, we can advocate for policies and technologies that prioritize human safety and promote a future where warfare no longer means death.
Advocating legal and operational change so
automation protects life, not destroys it.
