Strategic implications of emerging technologies / compiled by Antulio J. Echevarria, II.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Echevarria, Antulio J., II, 1959-

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

Series:

Colloquium brief

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Technological innovations--United States--Congresses.

Military art and science.

High technology--Congresses.

High technology.

Strategy--Congresses.

Strategy.

Military art and science--Technological innovations.

United States.

Genre:

Congresses.

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Carlisle, Penn.] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2009]

Summary:

The conference could only scratch the surface regarding the strategic implications of several important emerging technologies, namely, biogenetics, biometrics, nanotechnologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, alternative energies, and electromagnetic weaponry. More research is needed in the form additional conferences, individual studies, and war games, comparing the development of these potentially game-changing technologies globally. While technical expertise appears plentiful within the U.S. Department of Defense and America's private sector, both would benefit from the addition of more "strategists" capable of assessing, without prejudice, how individual technologies, or combinations of them, might shift the strategic balance power, and over what timeframe. The IT revolution is far from over, but it is no longer necessarily the most important one affecting national security; the defense community needs a means for providing greater awareness of technological advances, and on an ongoing basis. Ethical and legal guidelines must keep pace with, or even anticipate, technological innovations, particularly those that can change the way we think about armed conflict, combatants and noncombatants. The field of robotics, for instance, is already challenging traditional notions of what it means to be a combatant. Without policy changes and an increase in funding, the exploration of alternative fuels will not yield results capable of supplementing fossil fuels in any significant way over the next 2 decades

Notes:

Title from PDF title screen (viewed December 6, 2010).

Other Format:

Print version: U.S. Army War College Conference on Strategy (20th : 2009 : Carlisle Barracks, Pa.). Strategic implications of emerging technologies

OCLC:

435742362

Access Restriction:

Approved for public release.