ABSTRACT

This chapter highlights some of the problems and prospects of dealing with the prediction of future war. It summarizes a number of strategic-military trends that can be said to be co-constituting the contours of emergent forms of warfare (and of the global strategic commons) and maps them over and across selected areas of interest within the information and communication sciences and technologies domain. In closing, a few observations regarding the importance and implications of considering the question regarding future war in the field of Defense and War Studies are presented.