Open AccessTHE FUTURE OF WARFIGHTING
Author(s) -
Deane-Peter Baker
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/34-1-18
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , modern warfare , political science , computer security , political economy , engineering , law and economics , computer science , law , sociology , library science
It has become commonplace among analysts of all persuasions to insist that in recent years warfare has changed radically. Of course change in warfare is nothing new – like any human activity it is subject to the powerful influences of societal and technological change. But this is different. The shifts that these analysts point to are, they insist, radical. That is to say, they contend that these changes represent a fundamental altering of the nature of warfare