“Visualizing the Tactical ground Battlefield in the Year 2050: Workshop Report.” US Army Research Laboratory. June 2015.

 

This workshop report considers the future battlefield from the perspective of both informational and physical changes expected to occur over the next 35 years. They focused on 7 interrelated future capabilities including:

  • Augmented humans
  • Automated decision making and autonomous processes
  • Misinformation as a weapon
  • Micro-targeting
  • Large-scale self-organization and collective decision making
  • Cognitive modeling of the opponent
  • Ability to understand and cope in a contested, imperfect, information environment

 

The report can be accessed here: http://www.arl.army.mil/arlreports/2015/ARL-SR-0327.pdf

 

The article is nicely summarized in an article by Patrick Tucker, “In The War of 2050, The Robots Call The Shots,” published in Defense One.  Find it here: http://cdn.defenseone.com/defenseone/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenseone.com%2Ftechnology%2F2015%2F07%2Fwar-2050-robots-call-shots%2F118398%2F