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Battlefield of the Future - 21st Century Warfare Issues Study on future principles of war, military affairs, air power, plus information and biological war. From the U.S. Air Force. Nanotechnology and International Security How technologies emerging over the coming decades will undermine military stability while causing economic and political turmoil. The need to move beyond deterrence to an integrated international security system. Article by Mark Avrum Gubrud, Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, 1997. May the Smartest Machine Win: Warfare in the 21st Century Article from Raymond Kurzweil on future methods of fighting, including pilotless planes and thinking machines. Published in 1993. Information Warfare Articles about information warfare, nanowar, and other future conflict scenarios from Plausible Futures Newsletter. Conflict in a Changing World: Looking Two Decades Forward A view of conflict and its strategic environment two decades ahead. Author: C.J. Dick. Published by The Conflict Studies Research Centre, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK, 2002. Has Warfare Changed? Sorting Apples from Oranges States the difference between the conduct of war and the nature of war, and its practical consequences in the information age. Author: James M.Dubik, Landpower Essay, Institute of Landwarfare, July 2002. The Network Is the Battlefield The Pentagon's aim is to meld weapons systems and people into a whole, called network-centric warfare, that's greater than the sum of its parts. From Business Week Online, January 2003. Swarming - The Next Face of the Battle Technological advances often give rise to new types of weapons, but the achievement of lasting breakthroughs in fighting power requires organizational and doctrinal innovation. Opinion article by J. Arquilla and D. Ronfeldt, Aviation Week & Space Technology, September 2003. Chinese Views of Future Warfare Collection of articles about doctrine of future types and causes of warfare, future threats of security environment, short-term future challenges for possible local war, and long-term future warfare from the point of view of several Chinese authors. Publisher: Institute for National Strategic Studies, US - National Defense University. Future Directions in Warfare: Good and Bad Analysis, Dubious Rhetoric, and the Fog of Peace The changes required in US military to cope with the set of challenges that the early 21st will pose, by Glenn C. Buchan, RAND, for the Conference on Analyzing Conflict: Insights from the Natural and Social Sciences, UCLA, April 2003. |
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