Greater reliance on robotics and advanced networking will revolutionize warfare within 15 years, according to a top military official who forecasts future trends in warfare and technology. Robotic vehicles and manned vehicles will work together, linked by digital networks, predicted Frank Fernandez, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon's central research and development organization.
Genetically altered diseases that can pinpoint a specific ethnic group, miniaturized "nanotechnologies" that can boost a soldier's performance and biological armor that can heal itself if a soldier is hit-these are among the technologies that will radically transform future war, a new study says.
Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre revealed that the U.S. is beseiged by a "coordinated, organized attack from an unknown source". Authorities are conducting an intense criminal investigation but have yet to determine the location or nature of the attackers (i.e. whether they are sub-national terrorists, government agents, or thrill-seeking hackers).
Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre revealed that the U.S. is beseiged by a 'coordinated, organized attack from an unknown source'. Authorities are conducting an intense criminal investigation but have yet to determine the location or nature of the attackers (i.e. whether they are sub-national terrorists, government agents, or thrill-seeking hackers).