BATTLEFIELD OF THE FUTURE

THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS
century may be fundamentally different than it is today and, of
equal importance, evaluating what we should be doing now to
prepare ourselves for that eventuality .
We expect that the true revolutionary impact of future changes
in the conduct of warfare will come from the intersection of
precision strike, information warfare, dominating maneuver,
and space warfare . Military operations in all four warfare areas
will be integrated into an overall operational plan that will be
decisive in terms of the course-if not the outcome-of the war .
Precision strike will hold an enemy at a distance and blind
and immobilize him by destroying operationally and
strategically crucial, time-urgent targets . Information warfare
will deny an enemy critical knowledge of his own-as well as
our-forces and turn his "fog of war" into a wall of ignorance .
Dominating maneuver will deploy the right forces at the right
time and place to cause the enemy's psychological collapse
and complete capitulation . Space warfare will enable the
United States to project force at dramatically increased speeds in
response to contingencies while denying the enemy the ability to
do the same. At least that is the overall concept. What we need to
do now is develop the details ofhow we can conduct such warfare
against various categories of competitors .
Figure 1 .
Elements of the Present RMA
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