Author: United States. ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Today's Army Looks to the Future
Author: United States. ArmyToday's Army Looks to the Future
Author: Todays Dynamic Army Looks to the Future
Author: Today's Dynamic Army Looks to the Future
Author: Army Science and Technology for Homeland Security
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309165814
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Army asked the National Research Council (NRC) for a series of reports on how science and technology could assist the Army meet its Homeland defense obligations. The first report, Science and Technology for Army Homeland Securityâ€"Report 1, presented a survey of a road range of technologies and recommended applying Future Force technologies to homeland security wherever possible. In particular, the report noted that the Army should play a major role in providing emergency command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities and that the technology and architecture needed for homeland security C4ISR was compatible with that of the Army's Future Force. This second report focuses on C4ISR and how it can facilitate the Army's efforts to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and emergency responders meet a catastrophic event.
The People's Liberation Army Looks to the Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Western analysts have long known that Beijing is modernizing its armed forces; indeed, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is undergoing a transformation. Through innovation in doctrine, organization, and technology -- the fundamental ingredients of a so-called revolution in military affairs (RMA) -- China is pursuing a capability to allow "the inferior to defeat the superior" with an eye fixed on the year 2030. This is an ambitious effort to undertake but by no means unachievable. With the possible exception of the United States, China has analyzed the implications of RMA more than any other nation. Although the impact of modern weaponry was predicted by the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, the wake-up call for the People's Liberation Army came with the Persian Gulf War. Stunned by the near dominance of American systems, which bested Soviet and Chinese equipment in the air and on the ground, the Chinese scrambled to understand what had happened. In fact, Chinese analysts have been investigating high-tech warfare since the early 1980s as the Falklands, Becca Valley, and air strikes on Libya stimulated their interest. But their efforts did not gain support from the central government until more recently. China relearned the lessons of Desert Storm in the Taiwan Strait during 1996 when its forces did not perform well in bad weather, and U.S. naval forces operated at considerably longer distances with greater real-time data and effective military power. With the realization that they lagged at least a generation behind technologically, Beijing redoubled its efforts. Then, in 1999, NATO launched air strikes against Serbia, which once more demonstrated the gap between China and the West. American technology motivates Chinese research. This article reviews the PLA's technological priorities, emerging capabilities, and current and future concepts of war. (4 photographs).
Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309075556
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This report surveys opportunities for future Army applications in biotechnology, including sensors, electronics and computers, materials, logistics, and medical therapeutics, by matching commercial trends and developments with enduring Army requirements. Several biotechnology areas are identified as important for the Army to exploit, either by direct funding of research or by indirect influence of commercial sources, to achieve significant gains in combat effectiveness before 2025.
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Author: Paul ScharrePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "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.
Comparing U.S. Army Systems with Foreign Counterparts
Author: John GordonPublisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN: 9780833087218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Comparing U.S. Army Systems with Foreign Counterparts: Identifying Possible Capability Gaps and Insights from Other Armies provides the U.S. Army's Force Development and others an opportunity to contrast selected U.S. Army systems and capabilities with comparable foreign weapons. The sponsor of the research, G-8, Headquarters, Department of the Army, was interested in gaining insights into how various U.S. Army systems compared with similar foreign counterparts in order to identify possible capability gaps, as well as good ideas that other armies might have that the U.S. Army could consider adopting. Based on the time and resources that were available, the research focused on armored fighting vehicles, helicopters, rocket and cannon artillery, and various logistics platforms. The armies that were selected for the comparisons included U.S. allies as well as potential future opponents. The organizing principle for the research was the Army's warfighting functions. These functions include movement and maneuver (air and ground), intelligence, fires (indirect), sustainment, mission command, and protection. The comparison of the Army's systems with their foreign counterparts was performed within this framework. The primary data used to develop comparisons were the on-the-record attributes of a system, such as the range of weapons and the munitions they fire, weight and protection levels of vehicles, carrying capacity of vehicles either in terms of numbers of personnel or cargo, and range and payload characteristics of helicopters. In addition to performing direct system-to-system comparisons, the research was able to identify crosscutting insights and issues that spanned several of the warfighting functions.
Welcome to the Suck
Author: Stacey Lyn PeeblesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780801449468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A thoughtful and timely discussion contemporary war literature and films.