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Nanotechnology and International Security How technologies emerging over the coming decades will undermine military stability while causing economic and political turmoil. The need to move beyond deterrence to an integrated international security system. Article by Mark Avrum Gubrud, Center for http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/index.html Foresight.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   May the Smartest Machine Win: Warfare in the 21st Century Article from Raymond Kurzweil on future methods of fighting, including pilotless planes and thinking machines. Published in 1993. http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0248.html Kurzweilai.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Information Warfare Articles about information warfare, nanowar, and other future conflict scenarios from Plausible Futures Newsletter. http://www.plausiblefutures.com/index.php?cat=6694a Plausiblefutures.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Network Is the Battlefield The Pentagon's aim is to meld weapons systems and people into a whole, called network-centric warfare, that's greater than the sum of its parts. From Business Week Online, January 2003. http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/jan2003/tc2003017_2464.htm?tc&sub=03miltech Businessweek.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Swarming - The Next Face of the Battle Technological advances often give rise to new types of weapons, but the achievement of lasting breakthroughs in fighting power requires organizational and doctrinal innovation. Opinion article by J. Arquilla and D. Ronfeldt, Aviation Week and Space Techn http://www.rand.org/commentary/100703AWST.html Rand.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Past and Future of Nuclear War Transcript of a talk given at American University, April 2002, with edits. http://www.ieer.org/comments/dsmt/auspeech.html Ieer.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Watch on the West: War and Strategy in the 21st Century Describes how events in the Twenty-first Century will test the limits to American strength but not its fundamentals and postulates that these tests will underscore the inability of technology to overcome all challenges, by Jeremy Black, February 2002. http://www.fpri.org/ww/0304.200202.black.warandstrategy21stcentury.html Fpri.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Fourth Generation Warfare: How Tactics of the Weak Confound the Strong Postulates that today's global environment is defined by the 4th Generation War reality, with nation-states confronting criminal enterprises, fanatical opportunists, and terrorists whose gang-like networks transcend national boundaries. All these actors http://d-n-i.net/fcs/comments/c490.htm D-n-i.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Fourth Generation Warfare Slide show that summarizes the key aspects of asymmetric conflicts, by Greg Wilcox and G.I. Wilson for Boyd Comference, 2002. http://d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/4GW_wilson-wilcox_boyd_conf_2002.pdf D-n-i.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Bury Cold War Mindset: Fourth Generation Warfare Rewrites Military Strategy Article by Jack Shanahan, Chet Richards and Franklin Spinney, 2002. Describes fourth-generation warfare that pits nations against non-national organizations or networks that include not only fundamentalist extremists, but also ethnic factions, mafias and http://www.cdi.org/mrp/4GW.cfm Cdi.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check