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Richard Barrons, Wired: The nature of warfare is changing. It's time governments caught up
Unless the private and public sectors start sharing ideas, the UK will be left behind in the new arms race says former Joint Forces Command chief Richard Barrons.
If the day comes when you wake to find the tap produces no water, your mobile has no signal and your local supermarket is out of essentials, you may have become an unsolicited participant in cyber war. If that day includes the destruction of key power stations, 10 Downing Street demolished and the Bank of England left a smoking wreck by high-precision ballistic and cruise missiles, you will be witness to war in the Information Age.
If the day ends with the underpinnings of modern life shattered: the undersea fibre cables that connect all developed economies cut, the destruction of international airports and all oil refineries, then that war will be "existential", a matter of national survival. This is fortunately a fiction in our comfortable life of today, but it is not science fiction: just as the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming our lives it is already changing - and will change profoundly - how we confront each other and fight in this century.
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WNU Editor: No arguments with this sentence .... the character of conflict - how war is fought - always changes as thinking and technology advances. In my lifetime I have seen how thinking and technology advances have changed how war is fought. Case in point .... during the Vietnam War it would take the U.S. Air Force numerous attempts to bomb and destroy a bridge. Today .... just one cruise missile fired from a ship hundreds of miles away would successfully do the job. I can only image what future weapons will be able to do.
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Article misses the mark, no longer can arms industries rely on universities and companies for ideas. Everyone that goes through those pathways know the same things. Where as movies games and books all have ideas which can be applied militarily, end of the day it comes down to what content you have been exposed to. But no ones going to hire someone who watches movies all day to manage a multibillion dollar military prototype. Even if the star trek fans been designing the perfect spaceship for the last 50 years.
My grandfather was "on loan" to the Royal Navy in WW II. He told me that when the Germans came out with sound seeking torpedoes the first defense implemented was to drag a bunch of spoons behind the ships strung out in such a way as to create a large metal rattle.
"War is simple,locate the enemy, get as close to him as you can,strike him as hard as you can and then move" U.S.Grant to Bismarck.
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