Cruise Missiles Are the Present and Future of Warfare | RAND Regardless of what develops as the future of warfare, the combination of high survivability, success, and cost effectiveness means cruise missiles and their strike drone counterparts will continue to be the go-to first strike option for the United States and other major military powers
The Future of Warfare Boxed Set | RAND The Future of Warfare in 2030: Project Overview and Conclusions This report is the overview in a series that seeks to answer questions about the future of warfare, including who might be the United States' adversaries and allies, where conflicts will be fought, and how and why they might occur Raphael S Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Shira Efron, Bryan Frederick, Eugeniu Han, Kurt Klein, Forrest E
How Artificial Intelligence Could Reshape Four Essential Competitions . . . AI could affect four essential competitions in military affairs: quantity versus quality, hiding versus finding, centralized versus decentralized command and control, and cyber offense versus defense To exploit AI's potential, the U S military might need to change important aspects of how it operates
Electromagnetic Warfare: NATOs Blind Spot Could Decide the Next . . . The war in Ukraine has revealed a critical weakness in NATO's defenses: electromagnetic warfare (EW) While Russia dominates this invisible battlespace, Ukraine is learning in combat what the West neglected in training To close the gap, NATO must quickly build its own EW capabilities or risk falling behind
Warfare and Military Operations | RAND Warfare and Military Operations RAND researchers examine military and national security issues across a broad spectrum—from political dissent and military training to tactical operations and reconstruction efforts—and take a long-term, global perspective
Is It Time to Finally Put Someone in Charge of Waging Americas . . . The United States should address broader national security risks beyond terrorism by consolidating irregular warfare capabilities under a new Cabinet-level agency, similar to Britain's WWII Ministry of Economic Warfare
David vs. Goliath: Cost Asymmetry in Warfare | RAND Cost asymmetry has always played a role in tactical warfare, but the advent of cheap commercial drones has sharply tilted the cost asymmetry towards offense While it may be impossible to halt the proliferation of these systems outright, it is possible to increase the cost of doing business for attackers and reduce the likelihood of successful attacks
The Future of Warfare | RAND The Future of Warfare in 2030: Project Overview and Conclusions Who will the United States fight against and who will fight with it? Where will these future conflicts be fought? What will future conflicts look like? How will they be fought? And why will the United States go to war? This report is the overview in a series that seeks to answer these questions about the future of warfare in 2030
Naval Mine Warfare: Back to the Future | RAND Overall, while naval mine warfare benefits from technological development, employing a few old-style mines can be a useful complement to modern capabilities The low costs associated with naval mines may be further reduced by constructing some with century-old technology