ABSTRACT
The great powers’ wide-ranging modernisation of their military forces and heightened competitiveness in technological advances aggravate the threat landscape and elevate security concerns. The use of AI and autonomous weapons systems will fundamentally change the character of warfare and possibly the nature of war itself. Consequently, future wars will require different structures and different tools. They will demand continuous integration of forces across multiple domains and converging capabilities across services. Most importantly, there is already a requirement for a different kind of leadership mindset. To achieve dominance across all warfighting domains, alignment and deployment of all the nation’s defence and security forces will be a modern leadership challenge. Military superiority will largely rely not only on new technologies but above all on human capital, and especially on leaders’ skills and competencies to deal with change. Thus, the joint system of professional military education (PME) challenge is to support the continuous learning of senior leaders reinforcing their intellectual edge accounting for highly complex, technologically advanced, multi-domain warfare.
