Crowd Assessment of the Military Utility of Future Technologies
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.339 | Journal eISSN: 2596-3856
Language: English
Page range: 200 - 219
Submitted on: Sep 24, 2024
Accepted on: Apr 29, 2025
Published on: May 22, 2025
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