New military technologies and the future of warfare

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New military technologies are primarily a question of power, before the technological issue. It is important to see that in this case, the only actors studied are the State and the Departments of the State (Defence, research and development). It is for this reason that the main sources of research utilized by the researcher here are articles or books and State's official information. However, the State's official information has to be handled with precaution, and with relevance to their foreign policy. In fact, even if for certain cases, enterprises are an important part of the financing research, and the motor of innovation, the State is the only one that can impose the defence policy. The new military technologies today constitute the "soft power", against the real politics.

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[...] I say utopia because today and in the closed future, the main wars or armed conflicts take place in urban space and most of them in underdeveloped countries. It means that urban conflicts (like Gaza for example) where there is a high concentration of civilian population will inevitably cause a lot of death, and especially in civilian: city has been Ministère de la défense, Délégation générale pour l'armement, Dossier panorama drones en France www.defense.gouv.fr/dga/votre_espace/presse/dossiers/les_drones_en_france Sgt. Jason DANGEL, “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Play Key Role in American Forces Press Service, US department of defence, August DUMOULIN, André, Le zéro-mort : entre le slogan et le concept Revue internationale et stratégique, pp 17- remains and will be, most likely, a theater in central operations. [...]

[...] The new military technologies constitute today the “soft power”, against the real politic. To own military technologies is a strategic challenge: the most advanced will be the strongest and will have the power. That's the way States see the problem and explain why there are some difficulties to find information relative to the defence issues, the States security strategies are not really accessible. What is called the new military technologies must be explained in relation with a new theory born in the 70s and then retaken by the American analysts: the RMA, revolution in military affairs. [...]

[...] RMA summarizes the trend changes affecting the art of war. All this leads to speculation about the use of kit "civil" (computers, satellites, Internet) and on the political and military prospects arising. Everything could be summed up in one equation: R.M.A. = 1991 (end of the Cold War) + NICTs (new information and communication technologies) = new global order1. The technological progress, insiders by the U.S research departments in defence, has changed the paradigms in the way to conduct war, dominated by the U.S.A. [...]

[...] Asymmetric warfare, marking the end of the "war" based on the balance of forces between two poles and the nuclear deterrent3. Actors can be State or not, and asymmetry is the only response they can have against the military superiority. Since the terrorist attack on September 2001, the United States try to fight against terrorism in the world trough the technological armament and bring the other western countries with them in this innovation race. The main elements that concern military specialists here are: precision, detection and communication. [...]

[...] Actually it is a notion as old as the warfare itself. “Among strategic theorists, Sun Tzu placed great stocks in psychological and informational asymmetry, writing that: All warfare is based 9 LAPERCHE, Blandine, L'innovation orchestrée, Laboratoire redéploiement industriel et innovation : L'Harmattan p MAKKI, Samy, Privatisation de la sécurité et transformation de la guerre Revue Politique étrangère, volume 69, pp 849- Ibid., p on deception. When confronted with an enemy one should offer the enemy a bait to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. [...]