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Modern Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and society of modern times. Modern warfare is warfare using the concepts, methods, and military technology. The concepts and methods have assumed more complex forms of the 19th-and early 20th-century antecedents, largely due to the widespread use of highly advanced information technology and combatants must modernize constantly to preserve their battle worthiness. With the invention of nuclear weapons, the concept of full-scale war carries the prospect of global annihilation and as such conflicts since WWII have by definition been “low intensity” conflicts, typically in the form of proxy wars “conventional weapons” typically combined with the use of asymmetric warfare tacties and applied use of intelligence. The book takes us into the emerging arenas of war, including space and cyberspace. It evaluates the impact of technology and shows how dwindling resources and the scourge of global warming can precipitate conflict in the future.

Contents: Preface. 1. Modern nuclear warfare. 2. Modern warfare in space technology. 3. The computer technology and cybernetic warfare. 4. Modern psychological warfare operations. 5. Intelligence and electronic warfare in modern era. 6. Modern technology of information warfare. 7. Modern technological perspective in network centric warfare. 8. The Military-technical revolution in modern warfare. Bibliography. Index.