The Changing Nature of Warfare Through 2020

Abstract

This report is about warfare and how it might change through 2020. It is also about the strategic context in which warfare may change and how in turn warfare might change that strategic context. By warfare, we mean people killing people for presumably political purposes (i.e., beyond family feuds or criminal activities that result in killing). We look at it out through 2020 in three dimensions: where killing may be taking place, how the killing may be done (with what instruments, tactics, and strategies), and how killing may be organized and prepared for (from the level of terrorists and insurgents up to the state level).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2004
Accession Number
AD1014537

Entities

People

  • Dmitry Gorenburg
  • Eugene Cobble
  • Henry H. Gaffney
  • Ken Gause
  • Michael Mcdevitt
  • William O'neil

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Ballistic Missile Submarines
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Commerce
  • Economic Systems
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Military Organizations
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Strategic Security Studies