How Warfare Has Been Revolutionized By Cyberwarfare And Drones

Network defender at the US Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center. Photo: Rick Wilking/Reuters

How Cyberwarfare and Drones Have Revolutionized Warfare -- Tim Hsia and Jared Sperli, New York Times

Since World War II there have been many advances in military weaponry, communications and technology. In early May 1942, naval forces from Imperial Japan and the allied forces of Australia and the United States fought in the Battle of the Coral Sea. That engagement was the first battle in which naval ships did not shoot upon or even see the opposing force. Aircraft carriers directly engaged one another using aircraft, with their long-distance reach, as their sole offensive weaponry. This new type of warfare, the carrier versus carrier, was an inevitable escalation of the air, radio and radar technology of the day. It was viewed as a revolution in military affairs.

There is a tendency within military circles to call a particular advancement in technology a “revolution.” That was the case when former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld trumpeted technological advances as enabling the United States to wage war in Afghanistan and Iraq without significant numbers of troops. More often than not, an advancement in technology ends up only incrementally changing how war is fought.

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My Comment: It should be noted that while the focus now may be on drones and cyberwarfare .... one can only imagine what other new developments are in the pipeline .... and how they may make today's drones and cyberwarfare as obsolete as old battleships and crossbows.