7. Technology and Warfare

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliot A. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Irregular Warfare ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Revolution In Military Affairs ◽  
Conventional Technology ◽  
Asymmetric Responses

This chapter examines emerging technological trends that are likely to transform future warfare. It first considers some concepts about military technology before discussing the debate over the revolution in military affairs. It then explores three broad features of the new technological era in warfare: the rise of quality over quantity, the speciation of military hardware, and the centrality of commercial military technology. It also describes the challenges presented by the new technology for warfare, including information technology, and concludes with some reflections on the future of military technology. It suggests that superior conventional technology can be counterbalanced, to some extent, by asymmetric responses, such as irregular warfare and the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

8. Technology and Warfare

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Eliot A. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Irregular Warfare ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Revolution In Military Affairs ◽  
Conventional Technology ◽  
National Styles

This chapter discusses the role of technology in achieving victory in battle and the emerging technological trends that are likely to transform the way wars are conducted in the future. It first considers the debate over the importance of military technology in warfare before introducing the reader to some concepts about military technology, showing that military technologies often reflect different national styles. In turn, different national styles are determined by a variety of factors such as the search for technological edge. The chapter goes on to examine the debate regarding the revolution in military affairs and how asymmetric challenges such as irregular warfare and the threat of weapons of mass destruction can counterbalance superior conventional technology. It also explores the range of challenges presented by new technologies to military and political leaders before concluding with an analysis of the future of military technology.

scholarly journals Analysis and prospect of China's contemporary anti-terrorism intelligence perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 336 ◽  
pp. 09027
Author(s):  
Huijie Zheng ◽  
Zhenxing Chang ◽  
Hezi Liu ◽  
Yu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
The Future

New types of weapons of mass destruction are still being developed continuously at a time when traditional violent and terrorist activities such as explosions, hijackings, and hacking are increasingly rampant. In order to prevent major losses caused by terrorist activities and bring chaos to the order of social life, the importance of obtaining terrorist intelligence is increasing. This paper analyzes China’s deficiencies in intelligence perception and monitoring through collation, and summarizes the progress in the corresponding areas, and puts forward some of its own prospects for the future development of intelligence perception in China.

America, Russia, and the Future of Arms Control

2001 ◽  
Vol 100 (648) ◽  
pp. 323-329
Author(s):  
Jack Mendelsohn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

The Bush administration's national security policies, if fully and unilaterally implemented, will severely stress United States relations with Russia and China. … These policies would also deal a serious blow to the international treaty regimes developed over the past 30 years to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction and that continue to enjoy universal support and approval.

Introduction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John O. McGinnis
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Information Markets ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Problem

This introductory chapter analyzes the central political problem of our time, namely how to adapt democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We need better policies to obtain the benefits of innovation as quickly as possible and to manage the social problems that speedier innovation will inevitably create—from pollution to weapons of mass destruction. Our task is to place politics progressively within the domain of information technology—to use its new or enhanced tools, such as empiricism, information markets, dispersed media, and artificial intelligence, to reinvent governance. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

14. Conventional Power and Contemporary Warfare

2018 ◽  
pp. 238-254
Author(s):  
John Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
New World ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
China And India ◽  
Revolution In Military Affairs ◽  
Urban Warfare

This chapter examines how conventional power shapes warfare in the contemporary world. It considers the present and emerging state of conventional military power, how conventional forces function in areas such as distant strike and urban warfare, and how their role differs from that of other forms of force, including terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The chapter first provides a historical background to demonstrate the important role played by conventional power in war before discussing the rise of new world orders in 1945, 1989 and 2001. It then describes states possessing power and hyperpower, along with the revolution in military affairs and how developing countries may trump it through various strategies. It also shows how the distribution of conventional power is changing, noting that Western countries are in decline and new world powers are emerging, especially China and India.

Untying the Gordian Knot: Evaluating the Legal Dimensions of the UN Weapons Inspection Programme in Iraq and Rethinking the Future

1999 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-322
Author(s):  
Rex J. Zedalis
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Global Security ◽  
World Community ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

A variety of legal problems exist with the UN weapons inspection régime applicable to Iraq. These problems hinder the assurance that Iraq can be disarmed of the ability to produce biological or chemical weapons. Given this fact, the stalemate produced by the mid-December 1998 air strikes against that country might be best resolved by a reconfigured inspection program which aims at addressing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction efforts in the context of global security policy regarding such weaponry, with due account taken of the desires of Iraq's neighbors and the importance of reintegrating that nation into the world community.

Moral Enhancement, Instrumentalism, and Integrative Ethical Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 293-311
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Turchi
Keyword(s):  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Catastrophe ◽  
Contemporary Liberalism

AbstractIn this chapter I will discuss some of the arguments presented in Unfit for the Future, where the authors stress the necessity of moral enhancement to prevent a global catastrophe. Persson and Savulescu promote a reductionistic view of moral intuitions suggesting that oxytocin, serotonin, and genetic treatments could save humanity from the perils of contemporary liberalism, weapons of mass destruction, and uncontrolled pollution. I will contend that although we need a moral enhancement it cannot be a brute manipulation of our biology but something where human plasticity is seen as paramount. Following the lesson of Dewey's instrumentalism, I advocate a non-reductionistic, pluralistic view where neuroscientific data may be used to develop a more effective moral pedagogy. In my opinion, this prospect is currently much more feasible (and less risky) than a hypothetical mass psycho-civilisation created using drugs and electrodes.

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