... and all levels of knowledge (from the macrocosm to the microcosm).
Vadim Kozyulin:
The Global Hypersonic Race
At the strategic level, combat operations will mostly involve long-range precision systems. It has long been known that the decisive role in future wars will be played not by large ground forces or nuclear weapons, but rather by high-precision conventional weapons and weapons based on new physical principles [
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]. These types of weapons are gradually replacing the current numerous combined-arms formations, and will eventually completely replace both nuclear weapons and conventional ground troops. A massive conventional high-precision attack on military and economic facilities is capable of paralyzing any country, and the destruction of ...
... political leaders consider to be a victory.
Two Models of Victory
Back in the 1820s, the German military thinker Carl von Clausewitz distinguished two types of war – total war and limited war.
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Sergey Veselovsky:
Wars of the Future
They differ, according to Clausewitz, not in the number of dead and the scale of military actions, but in the model of victory
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. The aim of total war is to destroy the adversary as a political subject. The aim of limited war is to coerce the ...
... aviation will be replaced by high-precision weapons, which will be controlled by space systems.
We should note here that, in the future, the means of warfare will not always be formed upon objective laws and their development. The appearance of nuclear missiles ... ... aviation fell sharply and underwent significant changes. By the end of the 1990s, the growing tendency towards strategic offensive arms reduction forced people to start thinking once again about the need to develop military aviation. The idea was “cultivated” ...
... conflicts across the world. But even with the insufficient powers to disrupt arms trafficking, human civilisation has survived for five millennia, and only recently started to contemplate earnest measures to strengthen controls. Illicit trafficking in arms in the future will most likely not pose a more significant threat to international security than it already does today. We should remember that there are more and more means of surveillance and quick response mechanisms to the associated dangers. It has been ...