ABSTRACT
The emergence of new technologies has been challenging the conventional forms of governance. The rapid advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) technologies have been marked by an increasing dependency on all aspects of human and social activity on them. In context of the future of warfare, the implications of such profound technological transformations would directly impinge upon the very “concept of conflict, its means and its location,” and in so many ways would reflect radical departures from the past. The ICT technology has been in many ways empowering individuals as well as small groups to act in ways that states historically “monopolised” and therefore, are fundamentally altering the established patterns of governance and conflict. The foreseeable future would be characterised by “complexity, institutional overlap and speed of change,” and institutional competition may act as another roadblock to anticipating and mitigating the consequences of wars.
