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Violent Conflict in the 21st Century: Causes, Instruments, and Mitigation
amacad.org
Collection of essays including 'The New Evils of the 21st Century' by Robert D. Kaplan; 'Weapons of Mass Destruction and Physical Heritage of the Cold War' by W.K.H. Panofsky and 'Group Loyalty and Ethnic Violence' by Donald L. Horowitz. [PDF]
Recognizing and Understanding Revolutionary Change in Warfare: The Sovereignty of Context - Strategic Studies Institute
strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil
The author, Colin S. Gray, provides a critical audit of the great RMA debate and of some actual RMA behavior and warns against a transformation that is highly potent only in a narrow range of strategic cases. He warns that the military effectiveness of a process of revolutionary change in a "way of war" can only be judged by the test of battle, and possibly not even then. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, February 2006. [PDF]
Fourth Generation Warfare: How Tactics of the Weak Confound the Strong
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Postulates that today's global environment is defined by the 4th Generation War reality, with nation-states confronting criminal enterprises, fanatical opportunists, and terrorists whose gang-like networks transcend national boundaries. All these actors often slip through the cracks of security, military, and legal bureaucracies. Opinion article by G.I. Wilson, John P. Sullivan, and Hal Kempfer, Military.Com, September 2003.
The Network Is the Battlefield
businessweek.com
The Pentagon's aim is to meld weapons systems and people into a whole, called network-centric warfare, that's greater than the sum of its parts. From Business Week Online, January 2003.
Chemical and Biological Terrorism in the 21st Century
vectorsite.net
The zigzag evolution of chemical and biological weapons in the 20th century give causes for both optimism and pessimism in the course it will take in the 21st, by Greg Goebel, Jun 2003.
The War in Iraq: the Nature of Insurgency Warfare
csbaonline.org
An overview of the challenges derived from this revitalized kind of war. Andrew Krepinevich, Jun 2004. [PDF]
Changing the Paradigm of the War
d-n-i.net
A paper about the nature of fourth generation warfare and the form it may take in Middle East. By Steve Daskal, November 2003.
Warfare in the 21st Century
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Books, documents, articles and web sites. References gathered in a selected bibliography compiled by Jane E. Gibish, U.S. Army War College Library, July 2003.- Fourth Generation Warfare Is Here!
d-n-i.net
Harold A. Gould and Franklin C. Spinney review the changes after September 11th attacks. University of Virginia, USA, Fall, 2001. 
All Possible Wars? Towards a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001-2025
ndu.edu
Sam Tangredi presents a set of assumptions and possible scenarios about the future security environment for the next 25 years. National Defense University, USA. McNair Paper No. 63, November 2000.
A Warning from Clausewitz on 4GW
counterpunch.org
William S. Lind alerts about the dangers for USA of being the only superpower. CounterPunch, March 2003.- Globalization and the Nature of War
strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil
The article shows how globalization is enhancing the role of political guidance and changing the nature of war. Author: Antulio Echevarria II. Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the US Army War College, 2003. 
May the Smartest Machine Win: Warfare in the 21st Century
kurzweilai.net
Article from Raymond Kurzweil on future methods of fighting, including pilotless planes and thinking machines. Published in 1993.
Nanotechnology and International Security
foresight.org
How technologies emerging over the coming decades will undermine military stability while causing economic and political turmoil. The need to move beyond deterrence to an integrated international security system. Article by Mark Avrum Gubrud, Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, 1997.
NIC - 2020 Project
dni.gov
Information about a research project aimed at covering influences that would shape the world to the year 2020. Contains papers about the nature of future conflicts. Sponsored by the US National Intelligence Council.
Welcome to the Postmodern Warfare Era
speakout.com
An anticipatory article by David Isenberg, October 2000.- Fourth Generation Warfare and the Information Arrow
d-n-i.net
States the importance the information in the new way of fighting wars. By Greg Wilcox, July 2005. - A Military for the 21st Century: Lessons from the Recent Past
ndu.edu
A study about the required post-Cold War military transformation which takes into account the changing nature of war and the experiences of past conflicts. By Anthony C. Zinni, Strategic Forum, US National Defense University, July 2001. 
Bury Cold War Mindset: Fourth Generation Warfare Rewrites Military Strategy
cdi.org
Article by Jack Shanahan, Chet Richards and Franklin Spinney, 2002. Describes fourth-generation warfare that pits nations against non-national organizations or networks that include not only fundamentalist extremists, but also ethnic factions, mafias and narcotics traffickers.- Homeland Security: The New Role for Defense
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Shows the change of US strategic vision of national and global security after September 11 attacks, by Steven J. Tomisek. Strategic Forum No.189, February 2002.
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