Emerging Nonlethal Weapons Technology and Strategic Policy Implications for 21st Century Warfare.

Abstract

While technological advances continue to provide U.S. forces with decided advantages over potential adversaries, emerging nonlethal weapons technologies promise to provide additional military options to policy makers and commanders which were heretofore unthinkable, providing a strategic advantage to U.S. forces well into the 21st century. The potential impacts emerging nonlethal weapons technologies will have on strategic policy for future military operations are immense. These weapons possess the potential to carve out an intermediate position on the use of force spectrum that lies juxtaposed between no use of force and the use of lethal force. Nonlethal weapons present the Unlted States with a potential strategic flexibility no nation has possessed in the past, but is increasingly possible due to developments in nonlethal technologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 12, 1998
Accession Number
ADA345532

Entities

People

  • Timothy J. Lamb

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Collateral Damage
  • Governments
  • Military Applications
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Nonlethal Ammunition
  • Nonlethal Weapons
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Effects

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