The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the 21st Century: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century

Introduction

Part One: From Mechanised to Informatized Warfare
Chapter One: Navigating the Transparent Battlefield
Chapter Two: Contesting the Spectrum
Chapter Three: When Protection is an Illusion
Chapter Four: When the Tail Needs Teeth
Chapter Five: Blood in the Streets

Part Two: The Arms of the Future
Chapter Six: The Geometry of the Future Battlefield
Chapter Seven: The Manoeuvre System
Chapter Eight: The Fires System
Chapter Nine: The Assault System
Chapter Ten: The Support System

Part Three: The Continuation of Policy
Chapter Eleven: Divergent Domains
Chapter Twelve: Priorities in Transformation
Chapter Thirteen: An Instrument of Power

Conclusion

Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He works closely with the British, Ukrainian and American military, and advises governments on security and strategy. He was formally a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC and is the author of Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century. Originally a journalist he has contributed to Reuters, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and the Guardian, among others.