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An immediate, prescient, and expert take a look at how future technology will change virtually every part of conflict as we realize it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges in advance. Future war is almost here: battles fought on the net, biologically enhanced military, autonomous systems that can process information and hit violently before a human being can blink. A respected expert on the area of technology in conflict and brains, Robert H. Latiff, now instructing at the College or university of Notre Dame, has put in a profession in the military researching and producing new combat technologies, observing the price of our unquestioning embrace of advancement. At its best, advanced technology acts faster than ever to save the lives of military; at its worst, the deployment of insufficiently considered new technology can have disastrous unintended or long-term effects. The question of whether we can is followed, all too infrequently, by the question of whether we have to. In Future Conflict, Latiff maps out the changing means of conflict and the weapons technologies we will use to fight them, wanting to describe the ramifications of those changes and what it will mean in the future to be always a soldier. He also identifies that the fortunes of the nation are inextricably associated with its national defense and how its people understand the importance of when, how, and regarding to what rules we fight. Exactly what will war suggest to the common American? Are our market leaders sufficiently sensitized to the implications of the new means of fighting? How are the attitudes of individuals and civilian establishments shaped by the wars we attack and the means we use to fight them? And, of key importance: How will military themselves think about conflict and their tasks within it? The evolving, complex world of conflict and technology needs that people pay more attention to the issues that will confront us before it is too overdue to regulate them. Decrying what he identifies as a "shattered" relationship between your military and the public it assists, Latiff issues a bold wake-up call to military planners and weapons technologists, decision makers, and the nation as a whole as we prepare for a very different future.
