Ground Warfare in 2050: How It Might Look

Abstract

This Technical Note offers a brief technological forecast of selected military technologies and their employment in ground warfare in the year 2050. This document is a think piece presenting the authors opinions, intended for stimulating discussion and ongoing exploration of future directions in military technology. This Technical Note revisits ideas developed in the earlier US Army Research Laboratory report of 2015 Visualizing the Tactical Ground Battlefield in the Year 2050. It also elaborates on the context of several publications in which the author investigated possible features and capabilities of future autonomous intelligent agents and robots operating on the battlefield of the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 24, 2018
Accession Number
AD1059045

Entities

People

  • Alexander S. Kott

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Battlefields
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Command And Control
  • Concealment
  • Counter Rocket, Artillery, And Mortor
  • Deception
  • Detection
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Explosive Charges
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • United States
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs