Editing Military technology (section)

===Emerging territory===

Current militaries continue to invest in new technologies for the future.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8750|title=Technology Forecast 2019 – Military Utility of Future Technologies : A report from seminars at the Swedish Defence University's (SEDU) Military Technology Division|last1=Lundmark|first1=Martin|last2=Andersson|first2=Kent|last3=Bull|first3=Peter|last4=Dansarie|first4=Marcus|date=2019|publisher=Försvarshögskolan (FHS)}}</ref> Such technologies include cognitive radar, 5G cellular networks,<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8750|title=Technology Forecast 2019 – Military Utility of Future Technologies : A report from seminars at the Swedish Defence University's (SEDU) Military Technology Division|last1=Lundmark|first1=Martin|last2=Andersson|first2=Kent|last3=Bull|first3=Peter|last4=Dansarie|first4=Marcus|date=2019|publisher=Försvarshögskolan (FHS)}}</ref> microchips, semiconductors, and large scale analytic engines.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Johnson|first=James|date=21 October 2019|title=The end of military-techno Pax Americana? Washington's strategic responses to Chinese AI-enabled military technology|journal=The Pacific Review|volume=34|issue=3|pages=351–378|doi=10.1080/09512748.2019.1676299|s2cid=211411921|issn=0951-2748|url=http://doras.dcu.ie/25552/}}</ref>

Additionally, many militaries seek to improve current laser technology. For example, Israeli Defense Forces utilize laser technology to disable small enemy machinery, but seek to move to more large scale capabilities in the coming years.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Extance|first=Andy|date=28 May 2015|title=Military technology: Laser weapons get real|journal=Nature News|language=en|volume=521|issue=7553|pages=408–410|doi=10.1038/521408a|pmid=26017426|bibcode=2015Natur.521..408E|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Militaries across the world continue to perform research on autonomous technologies which allow for increased troop mobility or replacement of live soldiers.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.obranaastrategie.cz/en/archive/volume-2017/1-2017/articles/the-requirements-for-future-military-robots-supporting-mobility.html|title=THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FUTURE MILITARY ROBOTS SUPPORTING MOBILITY – Defence & Strategy|first1=Michal|last1=Kopuletý|first2=Ota|last2=Rolenec|website=obranaastrategie.cz|language=en|access-date=6 December 2019}}</ref> Autonomous vehicles and robots are expected to play a role in future conflicts;<ref name=":0" /> this has the potential to decrease loss of life in future warfare. Observers of [[transhumanism]] note high rates of technological terms in military literature, but low rates for explicitly transhuman-related terms.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Evans|first=Woody|year=2019|title=Transhumanism (dot) Mil: A Bibliometric Analysis of Technoprogressive Terms in Military Publications| journal=Library Philosophy and Practice |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/3598/}}</ref>

Today's hybrid style of warfare also calls for investments in information technologies. Increased reliance on computer systems has incentivized nations to push for increased efforts at managing large scale networks and having access to large scale data.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Burmaoglu|first1=Serhat|last2=Sarıtas|first2=Ozcan|date=1 March 2017|title=Changing characteristics of warfare and the future of Military R&D|journal=Technological Forecasting and Social Change|volume=116|pages=151–161|doi=10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.062|issn=0040-1625}}</ref>

New strategies of cyber and hybrid warfare includes, network attacks, media analysis, and media/ grass-roots campaigns on medias such as blog posts<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Danyk|first1=Yuriy|last2=Maliarchuk|first2=Tamara|last3=Briggs|first3=Chad|year=2017|title=Hybrid War: High-tech, Information and Cyber Conflicts|journal=Connections|volume=16|issue=2|pages=5–24|issn=1812-1098|jstor=26326478|doi=10.11610/Connections.16.2.01|doi-access=free}}</ref>

====Cyberspace====
In 2011, the US Defense Department declared cyberspace a new domain of warfare; since then DARPA has begun a research project known as "Project X" with the goal of creating new technologies that will enable the government to better understand and map the cyber territory.  Ultimately giving the Department of Defense the ability to plan and manage large-scale cyber missions across dynamic network environments.<ref name=pellerin>{{cite news|last1=Pellerin|first1=Cheryl|title=DARPA's Plan X Uses New Technologies to 'See' Cyber Effects|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/id/122455/|access-date=21 November 2014|agency=US Department of Defense|publisher=America Forces Press Service}}</ref>

{{Further|Cyberwarfare}}