This is a book about strategy and warfighting in the midst of a revolution in military affairs as the world moves into the twenty-first century. The book is composed of 10 essays which treat topics such as military operations against a NBC-arming sponsor of terrorism and intervention (NASTI) state, military strategy, information warfare, biological warfare, and the revolution in military affairs (RMA). The authors are either professional military officers or civilian professionals who specialize in national security issues. The book's purpose is to focus attention on the operational, strategy, and threat challenges that will confront US national security decisionmakers as they face some of the battlefields of the future.

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Introduction -- Principles of war for the battlefield of the future / Barry R. Schneider -- Overview: new era warfare? A revolution in military affairs? -- New-era warfare / Charles A. Horner -- The revolution in military affairs / Jeffrey McKitrick, James Blackwell, Fred Littlepage, George Kraus, Richard Blanchfield, and Dale Hill -- overview: future airpower and strategy issues -- Air theory for the Twenty-First century / John A. Warden III -- Parallel war and hyperwar: is every want a weakness? / Richard Szafranski -- Overview: information warfare issues -- Information war-cyberwar-netwar / George Stein -- Information warfare: impacts and concerns / James W. McLendon -- Overview: biological warfare issues -- The biological weapon: a poor nation's weapon of mass destruction / Terry N. Mayer -- Twenty-First century germ warfare / Robert P. Kadlec -- Biological weapons for waging economic warfare / Robert P. Kadlec -- On Twenty-First century warfare / Lawrence E. Grinter and Barry R. Schneider.