Battlefield of the Future: On 21st Century Warfare

Battlefield of the Future: On 21st Century Warfare

by Lawrence E. Grinter & Barry R. Schneider

Battlefield of the Future

Chapter 11

On Twenty-first Century Warfare

Lawrence E. Grinter<br> Barry R. Schneider

One of the "revolutions in military affairs" began when the United States successfully detonated its first atomic bomb in the early 1945 "Trinity" test. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

Battlefield of the Future: New Era Warfare

by Charles A. Horner

Battlefield of the Future

Chapter 2

New-Era Warfare

Gen Charles A. Horner, USAF (Ret.)

In the twenty-first century we are going to confront increasingly the threat of ballistic missiles and the need for ballistic-missile defenses.

The threats posed by ballistic missiles are obvious. Many nations now have them, and not all those nations are high-...

Battlefield of the Future: Information War, CyberWar, NetWar

by George J. Stein

Battlefield of the Future

Chapter 6

Information War - Cyberwar - Netwar

George J. Stein

In Arthur Waley's Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China, Chuang Tzu tells the story of a simple gardener who was shown a new tool that promised to change gardening. He laughed scornfully and replied,

I used to be told by my teacher that where...

Battlefield of the Future: Information War - Impacts and Concerns

by James W. McLendon

Battlefield of the Future

Chapter 7

Information Warfare: Impacts and Concerns

by Col James W. McLendon, USAF

Information has always been a critical factor in war. Clausewitz said "imperfect knowledge of the situation . . .can bring military action to a standstill," and Sun Tzu indicated information is inherent in war fighting....

Battlefield of the Future: Biological Weapons for Waging Economic Warfare

by Robert P. Kadlec

Battlefield of the Future

Chapter 10

Biological Weapons for Waging Economic Warfare

Lt Col Robert P. Kadlec, USAF

The final decade of the twentieth century has positioned the world at the threshold of tremendous opportunity. The collapse of the Soviet Union has dissolved the bipolar world and created the opening to forge a new...

Battlefield of the Future: Air Theory for the 21st

by John A. Warden

Battlefield of the Future

Chapter 4

Air Theory for the Twenty-first Century

Col John A. Warden III, USAF

War in the twenty-first century will be significantly different for the United States from anything encountered before the Gulf War. American wars will be increasingly precise; imprecision will be too expensive physically and politically to...

Battlefield of the Future: 21st Century Germ Warfare

by Robert P. Kadlec

Battlefield of the Future

Chapter 9

Twenty-First Century Germ Warfare

Lt Col Robert P. Kadlec, USAF

The United States military is entering "one of those rare historical periods when revolutions happen in how wars are fought. The revolution derives not from any single invention or idea, but from a range of rapidly developing technologies."1...

Battlefield Information Transmission System: Far T

BATTLEFIELD INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

FAR-TERM STRATEGY

(version 1.0)

COLONEL K. THOMAS, ACTING DIRECTOR
SPACE & TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS
DIRECTORATE
(908) 427-4449/DSN 987-4449

PAUL SASS
ACTING CHIEF, SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICE
SPACE & TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS
DIRECTORATE
(908) 427-2306/DSN 987-2306
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Antipersonnel Grenades

Antipersonel Grenades<br> ============ ========

Materials Needed<br> --------- ------<br> 1. A cherry bomb, pipe bomb, M-80, or other explosive device.<br> 2. Epoxy, Pyro Cement, or Elmers type glue.<br> 3. A carton of BBs. (cheap ones)<br> 4. A lighter.<br> 5. Half a brain.

What to do<br> ---- -- --<br> 1. Put some glue on the explosive, not the fuse, but the explosive.<br>...

Anthrax in a BioWar Environment

by Sheldon Campbell, MD

ANTHRAX IN A BIOWAR ENVIRONMENT

Sheldon Campbell MD, PhD 12/2/90

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The following document is derived entirely from the open medical literature and my clinical (and to a certain extent, tactical and political) judgement. There are two important limitations to the following data. First, I am a medical microbiologist, not a clinical infectious disease specialist. Although...