Joshua Sinai offers a review
of Lawrence Freedman’s The Future of War: A History at the Washington Times.
The nature of warfare is
constantly changing and evolving. New technologies such as unmanned systems,
whether militarized aerial drones, remote-controlled robotic tanks or
sophisticated cyber weapons that can remotely destroy an adversary’s critical
nodes in their infrastructure, directed-energy (e.g., laser) weapons, as well
as anti-ballistic defensive systems that can intercept in mid-air an
adversary’s offensive missiles, are all changing the tactics of warfare for the
countries that possess them.
In a parallel development, if
some non-state adversaries, such as terrorist groups, achieve the capability to
employ miniaturized tactical nuclear weapons or cyberwarfare weapons, they
could inflict catastrophic casualties on their more powerful adversaries.
With today’s state and
non-state adversaries seeking to exploit these and other new military
technologies, military planners are aware that new concepts of warfare
policies, doctrine, operation and organizational structures are required to
address the challenges presented by the constantly evolving revolution in
military affairs.
It is not only in the current
era that military thinkers are forecasting the future of warfare; they have
done this throughout history. As Lawrence Freedman writes, the future of warfare
has always been a matter of concern along with “the causes of war and their
likely conduct and cause.” Mr. Freedman is emeritus professor of war studies at
King’s College, London.
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