The Silent Trigger: How AI, Code, and Quantum Logic Are Rewriting the Rules of War Before We Understand...

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Julian Kade

The Silent Trigger

How AI, Code, and Quantum Logic Are Rewriting the Rules of War Before We Understand Them

Julian Kade

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Vij Books
20 September 2025

Arms negotiation & control; Military engineering

What if the next war isn't started by a general-but by an algorithm?

In a world where decisions are made at machine speed, the future of war is being coded in silence. This groundbreaking book takes you inside the labs, command centers, and classified programs where autonomous weapons AI, quantum warfare tech, and cyber-physical systems are quietly rewriting what it means to fight, to defend, and to decide who lives or dies.

This is not just a book about smart weapons-it's an unflinching look at how nations are engineering the capacity to wage war without human hesitation, human morality, or even human presence. As hypersonic missile strategy erases response time and autonomous kill decision systems learn to anticipate intent, we enter a new era where ethics, accountability, and power itself must be redefined.

Perfect for readers of political thrillers, military futurism, and real-world cyberwarfare and geopolitics, this book is essential for defense analysts, technologists, policymakers, and anyone asking what it means to survive-let alone lead-in the age of digital deterrence.

Inside, you'll discover:

- How AI is already being used in modern warfare to predict and pre-empt threats before they happen

- The chilling truth behind autonomous weapons AI and their role in recent drone strikes

- Why ethical AI in defense is not just a technical issue, but a philosophical and strategic one

- How future military technology is quietly shifting the balance of global power

This book doesn't just inform-it compels. You'll walk away not just with knowledge, but with a framework to think more clearly, act more wisely, and question more deeply the systems shaping tomorrow.

The trigger has already been pulled. The question is-who programmed it?

By: Julian Kade
Imprint: Vij Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9788199117952
ISBN 10: 8199117958
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 20 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julian Kade writes at the intersection of power, technology, and moral complexity. With over a decade immersed in military strategy, artificial intelligence, and the ethics of autonomous systems, his work dissects how nations weaponize intelligence and how intelligence transforms nations in return. His writing is driven by a singular conviction: that the most dangerous weapon is not the machine we build-but the decision to stop questioning it. The Silent Trigger is his defining work-a bold inquiry into the futures we are engineering without consent, and the quiet revolutions already taking place behind firewalls, codebases, and closed-door briefings. Kade lives and writes between continents, systems, and the vanishing line between security and surrender.