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Here's what the US Army Research Lab thinks warfare will look like in 2050. Reading just the Contents is a pretty good TL;DR but basically augmented humans, mic

• narrator 11y ago
  ...and the Russians will develop electronic warfare that will make all of those advanced systems useless.
  • pas 11y ago
    Politics. There are obvious strategies (bomb everything, if war still not over, build bigger bombs and GOTO 10), but that sort of demotivates humans and they stop the war. It'll be interesting (as in the old fake Chinese curse interesting) to know what happens when less democratic power structures wage war. They are still constrained by economics (trade creates value, if they bomb the shit out of someone they might find themselves cut off from trade, see embargoes and sanctions on Russia) and the possibility of an internal struggle (civil war) is always there.