This document discusses various trends and developments that may shape future wars, including new domains of space and cyberspace, advances in drone technology using artificial intelligence, and threats from extremism and climate change. It also outlines potential forms of future conflict such as special warfare, emphasizing quality over quantity, computer combat targeting command systems, and radiation and robot combat. Outer space combat may involve new laser and electromagnetic weapons. Future wars will likely be more joint across domains and integrated with politics. Resource scarcity, religion, immigration disputes and nationalism could also cause future wars. New areas may involve artificial intelligence, satellites, biohacking and enhanced human abilities through implants.

1. Types & Shapes of Future
Wars
Types & Shapes
of
Future Wars

2. • Security analysts believes that two new domains will figure prominently:
space and cyberspace
• Today’s new weapon is the drone, which has been used with great success in
targeted situations by the U.S.
• The next generations of drones will use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify
unfriendly targets among friendly ones, and learn and adapt from what it runs
into

3. Future Global Security Environment
• The access to resources (energy, food or water) will drive states’ security
interests
• Extremist non-state actors: will remain a threat to global security
• Environmental Security Concerns: climate change leading to instability
• Demographic concerns: rising population signals food security issues (leading to
food and water insecurity)

5. Shapes of Future Wars
• Special Warfare
• An irregular operational action in which special
troops adopt special tactics including special
reconnaissance, sabotage and attacks in the
enemy's rear area, search and rescue, and
psychological war
• Special warfare has developed from the
original so-called "counterinsurgency"

6. Shapes of Future Wars
• The Concept of Quality First
• The qualitative advantage of an army will be crucial in
operations, and particularly superiority in any
equipment that helps to achieve victory
• Quality first and technology first will become more
fully embodied in the operational doctrines and
practices of the armies in the world

7. Computer Combat
• Relating to the cyber security in particular, computer combat is a way to cause
critically significant ‘non-lethal destruction’ to enemy’s C4I2SR systems along
with incapacitating all weapons and weapon delivery systems and vehicles having
embedded computers

8. Radiation Combat
• Initially, destructive means in war were
primarily derived from chemical and kinetic
energy sources (explosives, bullets,
projectiles etc.), but weapon systems
produced by the third military revolution
mainly use sound, electromagnetism,
radiation, and other destructive mechanisms

9. Robot Combat

10. Outer Space Combat
• Laser weapons
• Ultra- high frequency weapons
• Ultrasonic wave weapons
• Stealth weapons
• Mirror-beam weapons
• Electromagnetic guns
• Plasma weapons
• Ecological weapons
• Smart weapons
• Logic weapons
• Sonic weapons

11. New Implications of Joint Warfare
• Battlefields will increasingly depend on outer space
• Development of space weapons will be a critical means to seize hegemony in
outer space
• Future wars must be joint with different combat arms throughout the entire
battlefield including air, land, sea, and space forces
• The integration of military actions, politics and diplomacy will increase

12. Causes of Future Wars
• The Scarcity of Resources
• Religion
• [
• Immigration & Border Disputes
• The Rise of Nationalism & Civil Wars
• Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

13. New areas of wars
• Artificial Intelligence
• Satellites
• Network Centric Warfare
• Bio-hacking
• Integrated chips and integrated circuits implanted with body
• Enhanced vision through embedded retinal implants
• Processors, software that controls nanobots with drugs released into the body at the
right time to combat fatigue or fear
• Software controlled exoskeletons

14. Conclusion
• New era in military planning is under way, which has involved some dramatic
changes so far
• The challenges in this era are remarkably different from those planners
confronted in the past
• Where parity in manpower could not be achieved, technology has been
implemented to level the playing field
• Many “force multipliers” have been designed and fielded, including the first
generation of truly “smart” and precision-guided weapons
• This broad-level change is continuing at a faster pace than some might have
expected, with both derivative and entirely new capabilities becoming available

16. Thank You
Q & A