{"id":13,"date":"2003-03-04T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2003-03-04T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T17:16:00","slug":"13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE FUTURE of WAR:<\/b> Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aro.army.mil\/soldiernano\/\">tip of the iceberg<\/a>. The impending war with Iraq will be a transitional war that demonstrates that the integration of new technologies means that &#8221; The revolution in military affairs &#8221; is more than merely a catchy slogan. Nanotechnology, robotics, quantum computing and genetic engineering will change warfare and the structure of the U.S. armed services in the next thirty to fifty years that today&#8217;s soldier will look as quaint in 2053 as a Minuteman with a musket. The gap in power projection ratio per unit between American forces and that of any major &#8221; peer competitor&#8221; will resemble that of thousands of Somali militiamen fighting a tiny handful of air assault troops in Blackhawk Down.  Unfortunately, the technologies that greatly enhance the capabilities of individual U.S. soldiers can be duplicated by non-state actors or &#8221; lone wolf &#8221; terrorists as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FUTURE of WAR: Here is the tip of the iceberg. The impending war with Iraq will be a transitional war that demonstrates that the integration of new technologies means that &#8221; The revolution in military affairs &#8221; is more than merely a catchy slogan. Nanotechnology, robotics, quantum computing and genetic engineering will change warfare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}