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Battlefield of the Future - 21st Century Warfare Issues (Popularity: )
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/battle/bftoc.html
Study on future principles of war, military affairs, air power, plus information and biological war. From the U.S. Air Force.
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Nanotechnology and International Security (Popularity: )
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/index.html
How technologies emerging over the coming decades will undermine military stability while causing economic and political turmoil. The need to ...
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May the Smartest Machine Win: Warfare in the 21st Century (Popularity: )
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0248.html
Article from Raymond Kurzweil on future methods of fighting, including pilotless planes and thinking machines. Published in 1993.
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Information Warfare (Popularity: )
http://www.plausiblefutures.com/index.php?cat=6694a
Articles about information warfare, nanowar, and other future conflict scenarios from Plausible Futures Newsletter.
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The Network Is the Battlefield (Popularity: )
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/jan2003/tc2003017_2464.htm?tc&sub=03miltech
The Pentagon's aim is to meld weapons systems and people into a whole, called network-centric warfare, that's greater than the ...
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Chinese Views of Future Warfare (Popularity: )
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ndu/chinview/chinacont.html
Collection of articles about doctrine of future types and causes of warfare, future threats of security environment, short-term future challenges ...
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Historical Perspectives on Future War (Popularity: )
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milreview/baumann-marapr97.htm
Shows how thinking deeply about the future of war requires careful reflection on its past, by Robert F. Baumann, 1997.
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Past and Future of Nuclear War (Popularity: )
http://www.ieer.org/comments/dsmt/auspeech.html
Transcript of a talk given at American University, April 2002, with edits.
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Warfare in the 21st Century (Popularity: )
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/library/bibs/warfar03.htm
Books, documents, articles and web sites. References gathered in a selected bibliography compiled by Jane E. Gibish, U.S. Army War ...
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Watch on the West: War and Strategy in the 21st Century (Popularity: )
http://www.fpri.org/ww/0304.200202.black.warandstrategy21stcentury.html
Describes how events in the Twenty-first Century will test the limits to American strength but not its fundamentals and postulates ...
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Fourth Generation Warfare: How Tactics of the Weak Confound the Strong (Popularity: )
http://d-n-i.net/fcs/comments/c490.htm
Postulates that today's global environment is defined by the 4th Generation War reality, with nation-states confronting criminal enterprises, fanatical opportunists, ...
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Fourth Generation Warfare (Popularity: )
http://d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/4GW_wilson-wilcox_boyd_conf_2002.pdf
Slide show that summarizes the key aspects of asymmetric conflicts, by Greg Wilcox and G.I. Wilson for Boyd Comference, 2002.
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Bury Cold War Mindset: Fourth Generation Warfare Rewrites Military Strategy (Popularity: )
http://www.cdi.org/mrp/4GW.cfm
Article by Jack Shanahan, Chet Richards and Franklin Spinney, 2002. Describes fourth-generation warfare that pits nations against non-national organizations or ...
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The Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR (Popularity: )
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/McNair/mcnair62/m62cvr.html
An assessment of future security environment for 2025, by Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., National Defense University, McNair Paper 62, 2000.
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The Future of War and the American Military (Popularity: )
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050218.html
Shows how the process of developing and building new weapons, as does the process of recruiting and training new military ...
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Global Challenges for the 21st Century: Nonproliferation and Arms Control (Popularity: )
http://www.nti.org/e_research/official_docs/cia/53100CIA.pdf
Remarks by John Gannon from the National Intelligence Council to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, about the globalization of the ...
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The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation (Popularity: )
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/4th_gen_war_gazette.htm
An article that intends to anticipate what the future conflicts will be like. Introduces the concept of fourth generation war. ...
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Changing the Paradigm of the War (Popularity: )
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/daskal_changing_paradigms.htm
A paper about the nature of fourth generation warfare and the form it may take in Middle East. By Steve ...
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NIC - 2020 Project (Popularity: )
http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_2020_project.html
Information about a research project aimed at covering influences that would shape the world to the year 2020. Contains papers ...
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Welcome to the Postmodern Warfare Era (Popularity: )
http://www.speakout.com/activism/opinions/2973-1.html
An anticipatory article by David Isenberg, October 2000.
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