Defense One: FUTURE of WAR

What is the future of war? Its boundaries seem to be melting
away. The questions of global security touch everything from
drone strikes to upheaval in the Middle East to the password on
your iPhone.


Over the past year, Defense One worked with the folks at
New America to explore these questions with the impressive
roster of national security experts on the “Future of War” project.
The resulting commentaries comprise a surprisingly varied and
nuanced package of recommendations that every policymaker,
weapons buyer, arms manufacturer, and simple natsec fanboy
ought to consider and absorb.


For this ebook, we’ve picked some of the best. There’s
a survey of experts on what to expect in 2016. New America
project director and author Peter W. Singer teams up with a
Georgetown law professor to list the questions you should
be asking the next commander in chief about drone warfare.
A career Air Force officer explains why tomorrow’s weapons
need to reach the battlefield more quickly. A former Navy SEAL
explains how special operators are exploiting networks.
The military likes to think of problems in near, medium,
and long term, and generals will say they’ve been incorrect at
predicting the next conflicts 100 percent of the time. But the
imperative is to keep trying, studying, understanding, debating,
talking, and devising the right questions for those tasked with the
solemn missions of finding and executing the right solutions. One
certainty about the future: it will include war.


Kevin Baron
Executive Editor
Defense One
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