ABSTRACT
This chapter examines each of these schools of thought in turn, identifying the key arguments associated with each. The different perspectives span a range of future visions of land forces: dispersed, high-technology, conventional warfare involving small, heavily digitized forces; low-technology warfare featuring irregular, non-state actors in which conventional forces involved; and blended wars in which future armies will face adversaries mixing both irregular and regular techniques of warfare. It surrounding debates of the Military Affairs Revolution: a label applied to a particular viewpoint on future warfare which emerged as a potent force in the wake of the Gulf War of 1990-91. This chapter finishes by examining an alternative to the essentially predictive approaches of these three schools: a focus on organisational adaptability. It trying to prepare for a single template of future warfare may less useful than building into an army the ability to respond quickly to the real conditions that emerge.
