Future War


Robot Wars -- Phillip Ball  -- Nature  -- February 7, 2005
Virtual Reality

Phillip Ball questions technology guru Ray Kurzweil about his argument that future warfare will be dominated by cyberwarfare and military robots.

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Battle bot: the future of war? -- Gregory M. Lamb  -- Christian Science Monitor  -- January 27, 2005
Military Robots

A look at how military robots could change the nature of warfare. One expert argues that the introduction of fighting robots would be "on the short list" of seminal events in all of military history right alongside the development of iron weapons, gunpowder, and the atomic bomb.

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Nanotech Arms Races -- Mike Treder  -- Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  -- June 30, 2004
Nanotechnology

An advanced, general-purpose molecular manufacturing technology could have a significant destabilizing effect and lead to an international arms race; even a nuclear power might not be able to deter a nano power, concludes a preliminary study by the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.

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Iowa researchers create virtual soldiers -- Staff  -- Globe and Mail  -- November 27, 2003
Virtual Reality

Researchers at the University of Iowa are using artificial intelligence programs to create computer simulations of human soldiers to help test the performance of future U.S. Army combat systems.

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Military Alters Plans For Possible Conflicts -- Bradley Graham  -- Washington Post  -- November 18, 2003
Nuclear Proliferation

Pentagon war planners have revised plans for potential wars on the Korean peninsula, in the Middle East and elsewhere based on assumptions that conflicts could be fought more quickly and with fewer troops than previously thought.

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Sci-fi war put under the microscope -- David Hearst  -- Guardian  -- May 20, 2003
Artificial Life

The battlefield of the future will be revolutionised by computing, robotics and biotechnology to create "killer insects" that can hunt down their prey in bunkers and caves and eat humans alive, experts say.

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Future Combat: Part 1 -- Frank Vizard  -- Scientific American  -- January 13, 2003
Directed Energy Weapons

The U.S. Army is planning a transformation based on "Future Combat Systems." New technologies will include hybrid electric vehicles, robotics, lasers, mobile network communications, and an array of smart weapons and sensors based on enabling technologies such as micromechanical systems (MEMS), biotechnology and nanotechnology.

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Looking to Iraq, military robots focus on lessons of Afghanistan -- Justin Pope  -- Detroit News  -- January 12, 2003
Artificial Life

U.S. military planners and robot designers are developing the next-generation of military robots -- some of which could see action soon in Iraq -- by incorporating lessons from Afghanistan, where robots saw their first significant military action.

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1's and 0's Replacing Bullets in U.S. Arsenal -- Vernon Loeb and Thomas E. Ricks  -- Washington Post  -- February 2, 2002
Information Warfare

When even the infantry -- long characterized as "grunts" and "mud soldiers" -- is focused on moving digits, it is clear a major shift is underway in the way the U.S. military fights. What the Afghanistan conflict has brought home to the armed forces is how much the new way of war is built around an unprecedented dependence on information.

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Future Tech: Really Special Forces -- Brad Lemley  -- Discover Magazine  -- February 1, 2002

A powered exoskeleton could transform the average joe into a supersoldier.

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