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The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the Twentyfirst Century [Paperback] Friedman, George and Friedman, Meredith

The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twentyfirst century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that Americas global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunpowder five hundred years ago From the era of flintlocks and cannons to the day of automatic weapons and heavy artillery, the waging of warwhile undeniably changing in many aspectshas continued to rely on the technology that began with the use of black powder to expel a projectile through a tubeIn The Future of War, the authors argue that this Age of Ballistics is ending and we are entering a fundamentally new period, the Age of PrecisionGuided Munitions PGMs, the socalled smart weapons that will antiquate the traditional way of making war Where guns and artillery are inherently inaccurate and need to be fired thousands of times to hit one target, these new projectiles are precise and lethally efficient; while ballistic weapons platforms must be brought within range of the battlefield, PGMs can devastate from any distanceThe authors show how the innovations in weapons technology will affect Americas defense strategies on land and sea, in air and in space, reshaping our military forces, while confronting us with new strategic challenges as America enters the twentyfirst century as the dominant power on the globe