Technology Threats

1. Technology and National Security
• PGMs
• RMA
• Cyber war?
• Robotics?

2. Precision-Guided Munitions (PGMs)
Thanh Hoa Bridge (after)

3. 1990-91 Gulf War

4. Revolution in Military Affairs

5. Lifting the Fog of War?
US “Information Dominance”
China’s response: Qiao Liang and Wang
Xiangsui. Unrestricted Warfare (Beijing:
PLA Literature and Arts Publishing
House, February 1999)

6. Cyber…
1. C4ISR
2. Cyberespionage
3. Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability
4. Cyberwar
1. Offensive
2. Defensive

7. Cyberspace:
The New Realm of Warfare

8. 1. C4ISR
US military dependence on
computers for:
• Command
• Control
• Communications
• Computers (internet, networks)
• Intelligence
• Surveillance
• Reconnaissance

9. C4ISR
• What we want: Dominance
• Basic reality: Dependence
• What we fear: Vulnerability

10. 2. Cyberespionage
• Theft of material
• Misinformation and alteration of data
• Disruption of activities and
communications
• 21st century spy game
• Identification and attribution

11. 3. Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability

12. 4. Cyberwar?

13. Real?
1. War just fought computer vs.
computer
2. Cyber as an adjunct to traditional war

14. US Cyber Command

15. • Cyber deterrence
– By punishment
– By denial
• Cyber capability race
• Cyber-war/espionage control treaties?
• “The Critical Infrastructure Non-
Disruption Treaty”

16. Robotics

17. 1. Robots Everywhere?

18. 2. Military Robots
• Packbot

19. 3. Robots to Do Specific Tasks
UAVs
• Predator Drone

20. • MARCBOT UGV

21. • Cormorant USV

22. BCB/AAI SQ-4 RECON Nano Quad-Rotor
MAV/UAS/UAV (Micro Air Vehicle/Unmanned Aircraft
System/Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)

23. 4. Robots Replacing Humans?
• Autonomous Battlefield Robots?

24. Special Weapons Observation
Reconnaissance Detection System
(SWORDS)