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Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare [Circa 2025]
Dennis M. Bushnell
Chief Scientist
NASA Langley Research Center

• Capabilities of the “Enemy After Next”
-Ongoing Worldwide Technological Revolutions
-Economic Trends
• Potential Nature of Farther Term Warfare
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This is the “Readers Digest” version of a 2-hour Presentation put together at the request of the Army War College/SSI

Presentation has been written up by 
Bill Stryker of DIA/Futures as the Future Threat for Global War Games etc., available on INTELNET
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THIS PRESENTATION BASED UPON “FUTURES” WORK FOR/WITH
• USAF NWV
• USAF 2025
• National Research Council
• Army After Next
• ACOM Joint Futures
• SSG of the CNO
• Australian DOD
• DARPA, SBCCOM
• DIA, AFSOC, EB
• CIA, STIC, L-M
• APL, ONA, SEALS
• ONI, FBI, AWC/SSI
• NSAP, SOCOM
• MSIC, TRADOC
• JWAC, NAIC, IDA
• JFCOM, TACOM
• SACLANT

Utilization/Application of 2025+ Projections
• Inputs to Future Warfighting Concepts Development(s) (Enemy After Next & Blue)
• Inputs to New Procurement Decision (15+ years to Produce, 40+ years in Inventory
• “Heads Up” for Intel Community (“Watches and Warnings”)
• Inputs to DOD R&D Planning

“Going In” Assumptions
• Politics can/does change “overnight” (e.g. Russia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, etc.), Potential CAPABILITIES is the future warfare issue, not Who but WHAT
• Order of 10+ years required to develop/field new systems, in inventory for 30+ years, should be designed for middle of inventory period, hence 2025 time period

CURRENTLY
• Order of 70% of Worlds Research conducted outside of U.S. (to first order, 
a % of GDP, U.S. produces order of 18% of worlds GDP)
• Order of 70% of U.S. Research now “Commercial” (as opposed to Government sponsored)

Hunter/Killer groups [Million BC~10K BC]
• Agriculture [10K BC~1800 AD]
• Industrial [1800~1950]
• IT [1950~2020]
• Bio/NANO [2020-?]
• Virtual

Hunter-Gatherer - “Nature Provided”
• Agriculture - Controlled Nature (Plants/Animals)
• Industrial - Mechanized Agriculture
• IT/BIO/Nano - Automating Industry/Agriculture
• Virtual - Robotization of IT/Bio/Nano/Industry/Agriculture

Worldwide IT Revolution
• Comms/Computing/Sensors/Electronics
• U.S. Commercial IT R&D ~ $100B/yr.
• Factor of 1 Million further improvement [Silicon,Molecular,Quantum,Bio,Optical]
• Beyond Human AI?
• Automatics/Robotics “in the large”
• Immersive multi-sensory VR/”Holodecks”
• Ubiquitous multi physics/hyperspectral sensors [land/sea/air/space]
• Micro/Nano sats/GNC/sensors,etc

[Worldwide] Impacts of Ongoing IT Revolution Upon Society
• Tele-commuting
• Tele-shopping
• Tele-entertainment
• Tele-travel
• Tele-Education
• Tele-medic​ine
• Tele-commerce
• Tele-politics
• Tele-socialization