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ABSTRACT
In the post-heroic era, features of warfare have dramatically changed in Western armies, but what about the future? This study focuses on the perceptions of commanders and experts from Israel versus those of commanders and experts from three Western countries (UK, Sweden and the US) regarding the challenges those armies will face in the future battlefield, at both the macro and micro level. This examination can lay a foundation for understanding the differences in the perceptions of the challenges that Israel and other countries are facing and to identify the major issues that must be considered in the discussion about the future battlefield. Most of the respondents found it difficult to anticipate the future. However, the Israeli narrative of the future was different from the narratives in the other countries. Qualitative analysis has exposed four factors of future battlefield perceptions: the characteristics of conflicts, macro-social factors, information and technology, and unit and command. In the Israeli context, complexity was perceived as a difficulty and even as a threat.
Notes
1. Luttwak, “Toward Post-Heroic Warfare.”
2. Ibid.
3. Kober, “From Heroic to Post-Heroic Warfare.”
4. Eisenstadt, “Collective Identities, Public Spheres.”
5. Lebel, “Blackmailing the Army.”
6. Luttwak, “Toward Post-Heroic Warfare.”
7. Kober, “From Heroic to Post-Heroic Warfare.”
8. Lebel, “Casualty Panic.”
9. Tilly, “Violence, Terror and Politics.”
10. Munkler, “The Wars of the 21st Century.”
11. Hoffman, “Hybrid Warfare and Challenges.”
12. Tilly, “Violence, Terror and Politics.”
13. Gentile, “A Strategy of Tactics.”
14. Kober, “From Heroic to Post-Heroic Warfare.”
15. Dandeker, “From Victory to Success.”
16. Ibid.
17. Kaldor, New and Old War.
18. Gentile, “A Strategy of Tactics.”
19. Zur, “Utilizing Technology in a Limited Confrontation.”
20. Smith, The Utility of Force.
21. Kober, “Warfare and the Future Battlefield.”
22. Bullimore, The Military’s Role in Nation-Building.
23. Lacquement, “Integrating Civilian and Militant Activities.”
24. Smith, The Utility of Force.
25. Kilcullen, “Countering Global Insurgency.”
26. McGuiness, United States Army Special Forces.
27. Denzin and Lincoln, “Introduction.”
28. Kober, “Warfare and the Future Battlefield.”
29. Ibid.
30. Alberts, “Information Age Transformation.”