This panel is really concerned with two entirely different topics. Global conflict and terrorism are really unique subsets of Class III information warfare. Therefore, I am going to address them separately. I refer to global conflict as information warfare and terrorism as information terrorism. I'll start with global conflict.
Information warfare is undoubtedly the warfare of the future.
Traditionally warfare has followed the different waves of development in society. Science has always been applied to war. Agrarian society saw the development of the crossbow, and as societies scientific capacity increased, so did the weapons they used in warfare. As nations industrialized, they used their factories to create tanks, and as our capacity to understand physics increased we used nuclear fusion to deal devastating blows from high altitudes. Today, computer guided electronics allow us to deal even more damage from the comfort of an underground bunker on our own continent.