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- Chinese Views of Future Warfare - Collection of articles about doctrine of future types and causes of warfare, future threats of security environment, short-term future challenges for possible local war, and long-term future warfare from the point of view of several Chinese authors. Publisher: Institute for National Strategic Studies, US - National Defense University.
- Battlefield of the Future - 21st Century Warfare Issues - Study on future principles of war, military affairs, air power, plus information and biological war. From the U.S. Air Force.
- Will Special Ops Success Change the Face of War? - The role of U.S. special operations forces in future conflicts explained by a number of specialists. Author: Harold Kennedy, National Defense Magazine, Feb 2002.
- All Possible Wars? Towards a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001-2025 - Sam Tangredi presents a set of assumptions and possible scenarios about the future security environment for the next 25 years. National Defense University, USA. McNair Paper No. 63, November 2000.
- Historical Perspectives on Future War - Shows how thinking deeply about the future of war requires careful reflection on its past, by Robert F. Baumann, 1997.
- Information Warfare - Articles about information warfare, nanowar, and other future conflict scenarios from Plausible Futures Newsletter.
- Future War: What Trends in the America Post-Cold War Tell Us About Early 21st Century Warfare - Examines the performance of U.S. forces in three major post-Cold War military conflicts to identify commonalities and trends that may have implications for the conduct of warfare in the early 21st Century. By Christopher J. Bowie, Robert P. Haffa Jr. and Robert E. Mullins, Analysis Center Papers,Northrop Grumman Corporation, 2003.
- The Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR - An assessment of future security environment for 2025, by Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., National Defense University, McNair Paper 62, 2000.
- May the Smartest Machine Win: Warfare in the 21st Century - Article from Raymond Kurzweil on future methods of fighting, including pilotless planes and thinking machines. Published in 1993.
- The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation - An article that intends to anticipate what the future conflicts will be like. Introduces the concept of fourth generation war. By William S. Lind, Keith Nightengale, John F. Schmitt, Joseph W. Sutton and Gary I. Wilson, published in Marine Corps Gazette, October 1989.
Wikipedia Articles
- Institute for America's Future - Institute for America's Future is an American thinktank which distributes reports, gathers and processes information, and does analysis of various progressive causes. It issues of focus include, the environmental, energy, and health care issues, social security, education and congress accountability.
- Future Comics - In 1998, American comic book artist Bob Layton, coming off after a short retirement from the comic book industry, returned to the business of creating comics by teaming-up veteran creators Dick Giordano and David Michelinie to form Future Comics. The four titles Future produced were Freemind, Metallix, Deathmask, and Peacekeeper (unfortunately no issues of Peacekeeper were ever published when the company closed down).
- Days of Future Past - Days of Future Past is the name of a popular storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book Uncanny X-Men issues #141 and #142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian alternate future in which mutants are incarcerated in concentration camps.
- World Future Council - The World Future Council (WFC) is an international, non-governmental organisation, whose goal is to work for a sustainable future in the fields of environment, peace, governance, human development and human rights issues.
- FTL Newsfeed - The first show ever shown on the SciFi Channel, FTL Newsfeeds were 30 second snippets of fictitious news info that was supposed to have come from the year 2142. This future timeline was fraught with stories of genetic engineering issues, technology trends, space exploration, future entertainment, right to privacy issues and geopolitical intrigue.