How is it possible for every planner in the Pentagon to be on board with a fashionable vision of future warfare, and four years later for the whole concept to be really most sincerely dead (to quote the coroner of Munchkinland)?

FORBES: Pentagon Buries Networked Warfare Strategy

Steve Goose has a post entitled The Future of Global Warfare: Killer Robots.

FORBES: Fear and the Killer Robots Meme

The future of warfare will be all about cyber space.

FORBES: 'Modern Warfare 3' Takes on the Hackers

It's the future of warfare.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"The future of warfare in Africa is going to be an odd mixture of odd tactics from the 1970s and new technology like drones, with less boots on the ground, " said Mr. Carstens, who serves as a country manager in Somalia for Bancroft Global Development, a private firm that helps train the nation's military forces.

WSJ: Terror Threat Prompts U.S. Rethink on Africa

Seizing the opportunity provided by Dr Fox's plans for decentralisation, General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the army, asked Major-General Nick Carter, a former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the director-general of land warfare, to carry out a review that would shape the army of the future.

ECONOMIST: The future of the British army

While we wait for Modern Warfare 4 and FIFA 14, perhaps this is the real future of gaming?

FORBES: LA Game Space Helps Video Games Grow Up

The appreciation for information and its potential advantages in future warfare led Chinese analysts to speculate and theorize on how they might acquire their own set of doctrine and capabilities.

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