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ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND FUTURE OF
WARFARE
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar
preconceptions. Each period, therefore, could have held to its own theory of war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
INTRODUCTION
A global technological revolution is leading to social, economic, political and personal
change throughout the world like the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the
past. The technology revolution with advances in biotechnology, nanotechnology,
materials technology and information technology at the vanguard has the potential to
transform human quality of life and lifespan, transform work and industry, reshuffle
wealth, shift power among nations and within nations and increase tension and
conflict.
The technology revolution will not be uniform in its effect across the globe but will
play out differently depending on its acceptance, investment and a variety of issues
such as bioethics, privacy, economic disparity, cultural invasion and social reactions.
Armed forces in 2025 will achieve unprecedented strategic and operational speed
by exploiting information technologies to create a knowledge based organization. It
will exhibit tremendous flexibility and physical agility through streamlined, seamlessly
integrated organizations that use near fantaices and procedures . The collective
result will be a versatile, full spectrum, capabilities based force that can decisively
respond to any future global contingency.
