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This handbook provides a comprehensive, problem-driven and dynamic overview of the future of warfare.
List of contents
Introduction: Gazing into the Future Of Warfare
Part I: Approaching Future Wars 1. Strategic Foresight and Future War: A Discussion of Methodologies 2. Predicting the Future of War in the 21st Century: A Future War Studies? 3. Thinking About the Future of War 4. Human Security in Future Military Operations 5. Great Powers and War in the Twenty-First Century: Blast from the Past 6. The Ecology of Violence 7. Militainment for Future Warfare
Part II: The Systemic Variables of the Future of Warfare 8. How our Accelerating Interactions in Cyberspace Have Shifted Global Power and Made a Kinetic World War More Likely: The Riddle of Steel 9. State Fragility as a Major Challenge to the Existing World Order: "Too Fragile to Hold the World" 10. Lawfare in the 21st Century 11. Privatization of Warfare 12. Terrorism: The Never-Changing Chameleon 13. Deterritorialization and Violent Networks
Part III: Concepts and Theories of Future Warfare 14. Understanding Western Perceptions of War and Insecurity: Unravelling Hybridity 15. Irregular and Unconventional Warfare 16. The Future of Proxy Wars 17. Remote Warfare: Drivers, Limits, Challenges 18. Vicarious War and the United States: Imperial Antecedents and Anticipations
19. Post-Modern Warfare
Part IV: Structural Complexity 20. The Persistent Appeal of Chaoplexic Warfare: Towards an Autonomous S(War)M Machine? 21. Ethnic Conflict and Modern Warfare
22. Just War Thinking and Wars of Information: War, Not-War, and the Places Between 23. Gender in Future Warfare 24. Intelligence and Awareness 25. Criminality and Delinquency: The Impact on Regional and Global Security
Part V: Technoscience 26. Cybernetics at War: Military Artificial Intelligence, Weapon Systems and the De-Skilled Moral Agent 27. Digitizing the Battlefield: Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Warfare 28. Quantum Warfare 29. Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems and their Potential Impact on the Future of Warfare 30. Military Neuroenhancement 31. High-Energy Laser-Directed Energy Weapons: Military Doctrine and Implications for Warfare 32. Space-Based Systems and Counterspace Warfare
Part VI: Harbingers of Future Warfare 33. Prospects of Great Power Rivalry: Escaping the Tragedy? 34. Internationalized Civil War 35. Challenges to the Nuclear Order: Between Resilience and Contestation 36. Conflict in Cyberspace 37. Large-Scale Criminal Violence in the 21st Century 38. Staging the Conflicts to Come: Visions of the Future-Tracing Security Practices 39. Savage Wars and Conflict Dehumanization
About the author
Artur Gruszczak is Professor of Social Sciences and Chair of National Security at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He is author/editor of three books, including
Technology, Ethics and the Protocols of Modern War, co-edited with Pawel Frankowski (Routledge 2018).
Sebastian Kaempf is Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of
Saving Soldiers or Civilians (Cambridge University Press 2018).
