Swarming And The Future Of Warfare

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Download or read book Swarming and the Future of Conflict written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarming is seemingly amorphous, but it is a deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to strike from all directions, by means of a sustainable pulsing of force and/or fire, close-in as well as from stand-off positions. It will work best-perhaps it will only work-if it is designed mainly around the deployment of myriad, small, dispersed, networked maneuver units (what we call "pods" organized in "clusters"). Developing a swarming force implies, among other things, radical changes in current military organizational structures. From command and control of line units to logistics, profound shifts will have to occur to nurture this new "way of war." Our study examines the benefits- and also the costs and risks-of engaging in such serious doctrinal change. Examples of swarming can be found throughout history, but it is only now able to emerge as a doctrine in its own right. That is largely because swarming depends on a devolution of power to small units and a capacity to interconnect those units that has only recently become feasible, due to the information revolution.

Author : John Arquilla
Publisher : RAND Corporation
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swarming & the Future of Conflict written by John Arquilla and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to perform military strikes from all directions. It employs a sustainable pulsing of force and/or fire that is directed from both close-in and stand-off positions. It will work best--perhaps it will only work--if it is designed mainly around the deployment of myriad, small, dispersed, networked maneuver units. This calls for an organizational redesign--involving the creation of platoon-like pods joined in company-like clusters--that would keep but retool the most basic military unit structures. It is similar to the corporate redesign principle of flattening, which often removes or redesigns middle layers of management. This has proven successful in the ongoing revolution in business affairs and may prove equally useful in the military realm.

Author : Paul Scharre
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608999
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War written by Paul Scharre and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.

Author : Sean J. A. Edwards
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swarming and the Future of Warfare written by Sean J. A. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarming occurs when several military units conduct a convergent attack on a target from multiple axes. The author derives a simple theory that explains the phenomenology of swarming. He considers command and control, communications, home field advantage, surprise, fratricide, and training and identifies the primary variables to most important successful swarming.

Author : Sean J. A. Edwards
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780833027795
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swarming on the Battlefield written by Sean J. A. Edwards and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarming has occurred throughout military history, and the lessons of this past experience may offer insights into a possible future application of swarming. This monograph analyzes ten swarming cases. The conclusions of this historical analysis are then applied to a discussion of future swarming.

Author : Seth J. Frantzman
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642936766
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drone Wars written by Seth J. Frantzman and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the battle for the streets of Mosul in Iraq, drones in the hands of ISIS terrorists made life hell for the Iraq army and civilians. Today, defense companies are racing to develop the lasers, microwave weapons, and technology necessary for confronting the next drone threat. Seth J. Frantzman takes the reader from the midnight exercises with Israel’s elite drone warriors, to the CIA headquarters where new drone technology was once adopted in the 1990s to hunt Osama bin Laden. This rapidly expanding technology could be used to target nuclear power plants and pose a threat to civilian airports. In the Middle East, the US used a drone to kill Iranian arch-terrorist Qasem Soleimani, a key Iranian commander. Drones are transforming the battlefield from Syria to Libya and Yemen. For militaries and security agencies—the main users of expensive drones—the UAV market is expanding as well; there were more than 20,000 military drones in use by 2020. Once the province of only a few militaries, drones now being built in Turkey, China, Russia, and smaller countries like Taiwan may be joining the military drone market. It’s big business, too—$100 billion will be spent over the next decade on drones. Militaries may soon be spending more on drones than tanks, much as navies transitioned away from giant vulnerable battleships to more agile ships. The future wars will be fought with drones and won by whoever has the most sophisticated technology.

Author : Louis A. Del Monte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124357
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War at the Speed of Light written by Louis A. Del Monte and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War at the Speed of Light describes the revolutionary and ever-increasing role of directed-energy weapons (such as laser, microwave, electromagnetic pulse, and cyberspace weapons) in warfare. Louis A. Del Monte delineates the threat that such weapons pose to disrupting the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, which has kept the major powers of the world from engaging in nuclear warfare. Potential U.S. adversaries, such as China and Russia, are developing hypersonic missiles and using swarming tactics as a means to defeat the U.S. military. In response, the U.S. Department of Defense established the 2018 National Security Strategy, emphasizing directed-energy weapons, which project devastation at the speed of light and are capable of destroying hypersonic missiles and enemy drones and missile swarms. Del Monte analyzes how modern warfare is changing in three fundamental ways: the pace of war is quickening, the rate at which weapons project devastation is reaching the speed of light, and cyberspace is now officially a battlefield. In this acceleration of combat called "hyperwar," Del Monte shows how disturbingly close the world is to losing any deterrence to nuclear warfare.

Author : James Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526179081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare written by James Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare sketches a clear and sobering picture of the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the digitized battlefield, broadening our understanding of critical questions facing decisions-makers today.

Author : David Hambling
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ISBN 13 : 9781942761747
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swarm Troopers written by David Hambling and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small unmanned aircraft are already transforming warfare, with hand-launched scouts like the Raven and lethal tactical drones like Switchblade already in use by US forces. A bigger revolution is on the way, as swarming software allows a single operator to control large numbers of drones, and smartphone technology means they can be built for $1,000 each -- by anybody, not just governments. This book looks at the history of drone warfare, the rise of big drones like the Predator and how they are being eclipsed by smaller unmanned aircraft. And how the future is being shaped by smartphone technology, swarm software, miniaturised munitions and energy-harvesting that allows small drones to fly forever. It also looks at why current air defence cannot stop the swarms, and what drone swarms will mean for the balance of power and future wars. This is the world of Swarm Troopers

Author : Paul D. McGraw
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Download or read book Strategic Swarming written by Paul D. McGraw and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True transformation for the U.S. military requires review of all aspects of how the military is manned, equipped and ultimately employed. Transformation must match and respond to the diverse array of threats in a multi-polar world. The ability to deal with a single adversary of the former bipolar world through a policy of containment has given way to a long list of nation-state, non-state and transnational actors that pose serious regional threats that upset delicate strategic balance and put the U.S. vital interests at risk. As part of transformation and relying on the benefits of advanced technology for highly reliable, capable and lighter systems a change from power projection to overseas presence is required. It is not overseas presence of today. A new overseas presence concept is required that can respond and potentially anticipate threats in the world. This new concept is called Strategic Swarming. The concept is a complete change from power projection and current overseas presence concepts. The concept has tremendous benefits for the U.S. military's ability to meet the requirements of National Security Strategy, National Military Strategy, Joint Vision 2020 and transformation.