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020			_a9781350352957
050			_aU165 _b.W336 2025
100			_aWatling, Jack
245			_aThe Arms of the Future : _btechnology and close combat in the twenty-first century / _cJack Watling
250			_aReprinted (twice) 2025
260			_aLondon: _aNew York: _bBloomsbury Academic, _c2025.
300			_a251 Pages: _billustrations; _c23 cm.
440			_aNew Perspectives on Security and Defense. _vVol. 1
505			_aNavigating the transparent battlefield -- Contesting the spectrum -- When protection is an illusion -- When the tail needs teeth -- Blood in the streets -- The geometry of the future battlefield -- The manoeuvre system -- The fires system -- The assault system -- The support system -- Divergent domains -- Priorities in transformation -- An instrument of power.
520			_a"From smart munitions and ground penetrating radar to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and drones, the mode of warfare is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, with modern technologies reshaping how armies fight in the twenty-first century. Modern Weapons and Tactics analyses the choices that armies confront as they try and combine old and new capabilities. Based upon extensive observation and practical experimentation with emerging systems, Jack Watling charts how the decisions armies make to seek advantage from novel technologies inevitably determine their effectiveness and success on the battlefield. At a time when defense spending across NATO is on the rise, and conflict with Russia raises new questions of what it means to fight a truly 'modern' war, Watling demonstrates how armies must fight, rather than simply assert what they will fight with"
650			_aTactics.
650			_aStrategy.
650			_aMilitary Art and Science _xTechnological Innovations.
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