Modern warfare

Future Combat Field: Nightmare or Approaching Reality?

A workshop held with leaders from the US Defence Department, Army Research Lab, Institute for Defence Analysis and a select number of academics in the United States recently, published a report which tries to envision the future combat field in 2050.

In the world envisioned, armed drones will patrol the skies searching for enemy targets to eliminate. Unlike today where a human is always operating the unmanned platform, this future world has no need for human to call the shots and soldiers, the report states, will only have limited control over the smart robots operating in the field.