There Will Be War Volume X by Jerry Pournelle & David Vandyke & Doug Beason

Author:Jerry Pournelle & David Vandyke & Doug Beason [Pournelle, Jerry & VanDyke, David & Beason, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B019KYLOKQ
Publisher: Castalia House
Published: 2015-12-18T07:00:00+00:00

New Technology, New Thinking

Directed Energy (DE) weapons such as lasers and high-power microwaves have come of age. Over the past two decades, DE power has increased by nine orders of magnitude—over a billion times— from milliwatt to megawatt. This is like supercharging your laser pointer used for highlighting PowerPoint slides to shoot down ballistic missiles a hundred kilometres away.

DE is making revolutionary, world-changing advances in warfighting and battling terrorism. And it’s doing so today. It’s happening so fast, it’s the equivalent of a military Future Shock. The first DE weapons have already been developed, their successors are being refined, and in the next decades, when they are deployed on the battlefield, they may prove to be more revolutionary than the longbow, machine guns, stealth airplanes, cruise missiles, nuclear submarines, or even the atomic bomb.

The wars in Ukraine and Syria may be among the last to not make use of DE weapons.

The reason Directed Energy is likely to prove so revolutionary is that national leaders will soon have the ability to respond to threats anywhere in the world and instantly deter them with infinite precision at the speed of light.

The profound change these capabilities will make to international relations will reverberate throughout society. It will transform our way of life. This is because Directed Energy is not just about winning wars; it’s more than just a new weapon in the warrior’s arsenal. It is the basis for a completely new way of thinking, a new way of employing force from the strategic to the non-lethal levels and interacting with the international community.

The large, industrial allied defence establishment that served so well throughout the Cold War will be transformed into a lighter, more agile, and information-centric force, which will shift hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars from the government to the commercial marketplace.

Over the next decade, this shift will result in the most profound change to the U.S. Defense Department since World War II. Just as tourism was revolutionised by the jet engine, and communication was forever changed by the transistor, the next societal change will be fueled by Directed Energy in the form of DE weapons.

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