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 | - The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation - - An article that intends to anticipate what the future conflicts will be like. Introduces the concept of fourth generation war. By William S. Lind, Keith Nightengale, John F. Schmitt, Joseph W. Sutton and Gary I. Wilson, published in Marine Corps Gazette, October 1989.
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 | - Changing the Paradigm of the War - - A paper about the nature of fourth generation warfare and the form it may take in Middle East. By Steve Daskal, November 2003.
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 | - The Dangers of Warfare in a Media Age - - The author alerts about the dangers of the contemporary media age, in which events across the world are instantly brought before vast international audiences, for example, that tomorrow’s wars could be at risk of being overly influenced by the views of spectator audiences, at the expense of the considerations that ought to guide policy-makers, such as the assessment of the national interest. By Roger Howard, April 2003.
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 | - Evolution of War - - A slide presentation showing the past, present and future of the war.
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 | - Fighting in the Gray Zone. A Strategy to Close the Preemption Gap. - - The US 2002 National Security Strategy (NSS) identified the proliferation, privatization, and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by terrorist groups and rogue states as the critical nontraditional threat of the 21st century. Published in September 2004, US Army War College. Authored by Joanne M. Fish, Samuel F. McCraw and Christopher J. Reddish.
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 | - Fourth Generation Warfare - - Slide show that summarizes the key aspects of asymmetric conflicts, by Greg Wilcox and G.I. Wilson for Boyd Comference, 2002. [PDF.
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 | - Fourth Generation Warfare: How Tactics of the Weak Confound the Strong - - Postulates that today's global environment is defined by the 4th Generation War reality, with nation-states confronting criminal enterprises, fanatical opportunists, and terrorists whose gang-like networks transcend national boundaries. All these actors often slip through the cracks of security, military, and legal bureaucracies. Opinion article by G.I. Wilson, John P. Sullivan, and Hal Kempfer, Military.Com, September 2003.
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 | - The Future of War and the American Military - - Shows how the process of developing and building new weapons, as does the process of recruiting and training new military officers takes decades, so that, leaders need to be futurists by making statements, implicitly or explicitly, about what they think will be useful many years ahead. By, Stephen Peter Rosen, Harvard Magazine, May-June 2002.
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 | - Globalization and the Nature of War - - The article shows how globalization is enhancing the role of political guidance and changing the nature of war. Author: Antulio Echevarria II. Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the US Army War College, 2003.
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- Information Warfare - Articles about information warfare, nanowar, and other future conflict scenarios from Plausible Futures Newsletter.
 | - The Kingdom of Chaos or What Hath the Great Subversive Wrought? - - The article describes the state of chaos of the post-Cold War world, with a steady increase of entropy and anomie, and a crisis of former models of leadership. Also, analyzes the nature of future conflicts and the role of United States and Europe as key players within this new environment. Authors: Norman A. Bailey and Criton M. Zoakos, published by the Center for Hemispheric Studies Alexis de Tocqueville.
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 | - Nanotechnology and International Security - - How technologies emerging over the coming decades will undermine military stability while causing economic and political turmoil. The need to move beyond deterrence to an integrated international security system. Article by Mark Avrum Gubrud, Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, 1997.
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 | - Nation-State Failure: A Recurring Phenomenon? - - Analyzes the weakness and failure of nation-states as a potential source of future conflicts. Essay by Robert Rotberg, for NIC 2020 Project, Inaugural Workshop, November 2003. [PDF.
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 | - The Network Is the Battlefield - - The Pentagon's aim is to meld weapons systems and people into a whole, called network-centric warfare, that's greater than the sum of its parts. From Business Week Online, January 2003.
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 | - NIC - 2020 Project - - Information about a research project aimed at covering influences that would shape the world to the year 2020. Contains papers about the nature of future conflicts. Sponsored by the US National Intelligence Council.
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 | - Swarming - The Next Face of the Battle - - Technological advances often give rise to new types of weapons, but the achievement of lasting breakthroughs in fighting power requires organizational and doctrinal innovation. Opinion article by J. Arquilla and D. Ronfeldt, Aviation Week and Space Technology, September 2003.
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 | - The War Ahead And The Way Ahead - - The possible use by insurgecy of tactical success for operational and strategic impact is analyzed by Charles K. Bartles, Lester W. Grau and Jacob W. Kipp from the Foreign Military Strategic Office.
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 | - War Paradigm - - A look into the fundamental changes happening in warfare and how they may, in turn, effect the world system. By Will Waddell, June 2004.
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 | - Warfare in the 21st Century - - Books, documents, articles and web sites. References gathered in a selected bibliography compiled by Jane E. Gibish, U.S. Army War College Library, July 2003.
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 | - Watch on the West: War and Strategy in the 21st Century - - Describes how events in the Twenty-first Century will test the limits to American strength but not its fundamentals and postulates that these tests will underscore the inability of technology to overcome all challenges, by Jeremy Black, February 2002.
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