Preface: Who owns the Future?
Chapter 1: Future-Gazing
Chapter 2: Future Past
Chapter 3: The Rise of the Machines
Chapter 4: The Moral Maze
Chapter 5: Killing Zone
Chapter 6: Beyond 2035
Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
"Over the past decade, Christopher Coker has staked a strong claim
to being one of the world's foremost thinkers on the cultural
representation of future military conflict. His latest book, Future
War is a stimulating interdisciplinary meditation on what may lie
ahead in the way humanity conceives of armed conflict across a
connected globe. Coker tells us that the problem we face is less
one of long-term forecasting but rather the necessity to cultivate
long-sightedness in a manner that helps us to shape the future of
war before we have to experience it. Blending literature, moral
philosophy, history, science and popular culture we embark upon an
intellectual journey that embraces ideas from Clausewitz,
Schopenhauer, Star Trek, and Ender's Game. Most students of future
war are instrumentalists but Coker reminds us of the vital
importance of an existential understanding of humanity's second
oldest profession."
Michael Evans, Australian Defence College "Christopher Coker's
Future War is powerfully elegant and breathtakingly erudite, as
much at home in history and the classics as in science fiction and
futurism. It is intellectually challenging, always challenging,
sketching a future of Big Data where war will no longer be the
monopoly of the state. When Coker balances the factors driving war
against those constraining it, he recognizes that its end is not
yet in sight. Even so, there is a glimmer of optimism and hope in
his analysis--the future, as points out, is not a destiny, but a
choice."
Steven Metz, Strategic Studies Institute, Pennsylvania "The big
military powers have the luxury of dedicated experts on the future
of warfare. Smaller powers have strategic defence reviews.
Christopher Coker is one of Britain's major thinkers about humanity
and warfare. His work is a crucial resource for anyone with the
unenviable task of thinking practically about our collective
defence, especially since in Future Wars he rescues the subject
from technological fantasists."
Michael Burleigh, author of Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global
Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World
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