Technological warfare for asymmetric wars: new means for old strategies?

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Since the beginning of the Humanity, Warfare means technological development. It is quite natural to figure what innovations could be done in the next years, in order to focus himself on the crucial areas which will be likely to enhance military power, sometimes involving changes in warfare.
Lt. Col. David Galula wrote about asymmetric wars, based on French deep experience in these field in Africa, especially in Algeria. He pointed out that winning new wars means transforming an army armed retaliation on civil-military cooperation to win both war and peace. A rebellion use indeed civilian society to protect itself. To seize the society support, they use any possible means, could it be nationalism or simply terror. Such a rebellion can have enough effects to challenge a huge conventional army. This asymmetry may not be in term of military capabilities, but in term of actors involved.
The question is then the following: is a technological gap between two opponents enough to win an asymmetric war? The current procurement system of armed forces admit this hypothesis as a fact to develop new costly arm system. Is it reality?
Warfare revolution in unmanned systems and networks will probably not change anything. When military got the use of highly sophisticated transmission devices, rebels used mobile phones. And we will probably soon see on war theater the apparition of civilians drones to carry the same information missions than military UAVs – with less efficiency though.
3D printing will also offer for both military and rebels the same access to supplies to repair arm systems. Cheaper, lighter, the development of new smartphones will offer infinite combinations to develop homemade war devices. The Syrian civil war offer a wide r...

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...h means human-centered system with both offensive and information aspects. But what about technology?
Economic development of a country can be accelerated using state of the art technology as a catalyzer. But if we rely only on brute power Research and Development, the technology will win war, but not peace. And that is exactly what the cold war has misshaped on us, and why such a war couldn’t have occurred. We didn’t knew what to do after destroying the whole world. We have to learn again how to win peace using armed force.
Future of War is still in the shadows. But the youth is shaping more and more the new 21st century world, from colored revolutions to information network. They have the ability to grasp the moment, but they also hold the future. How they will be involved in the development of a new warfare will deeply affect it. And that is the real unknown.

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