Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.
I take the time to discuss some of the conventional ramifications of modern warfare and book & article recommendations that have given me a deeper and more nuanced understanding of why wars begin and end as they do.
Robotics, autonomous targeting and hyper-velocity munitions are democratizing the battle field in a way heretofore unimagined. Drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platform that are over priced and have the same provenance of battleships planet-wide in January 1942.
The electronic emissions environment in future conflicts will be a two-way street that will put any active acquisition sensors and attached effectors in the hazard if they emit and remain in one place.
Autonomous targeting will become more and more relevant as the speed of munitions increases and the salvo competition costs are driven down.
Hyper-velocity munitions are here to stay.
The US Army and all land forces in the allied nations in the first world are in for a dramatic wake-up call.
The life of the light infantryman will change significantly since for the first time in human history, the cost of hunting individual soldiers and small groups of soldiers in an effective fashion has reached a cost in concert with technology.
"Quantity has a quality all of its own." - Thomas A. Callaghan Jr.
** I cover these issues in detail on my Chasing Ghosts podcast in Episodes 19, 24, 33-34, 47-48 and 53-54. **
References:
The 2024 Army Force Structure Transformation Initiative (CRS)
A Retrospective on RMA, 2000-2020.
The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age
Army Futures Command Concept for Fires 2028
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Lester Grau & Charles K. Bartles The Russian Way of War: Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces
Georgii Samoilovich Isserson G.S. Isserson and the War of the Future: Key Writings of a Soviet Military Theorist
Sun Tzu The Art of War
H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
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