Over the next few decades, the ability of military organizations to acquire, process and move information with great precision over great distances could increase exponentially. As information continues to increase in military importance, further advances in information denial and manipulation could follow as well. The information aspects of war and the ability to strike with great precision from extended ranges will likely be central to the emerging military regime. Over time, the boundaries separating warfare dimensions should become increasingly blurred. When this transformation is complete, theater warfare could become fully multidimensional, and strategic warfare and conflict short of war could be substantially altered as well.
Military revolutions are major discontinuities in military affairs.
They render obsolete or subordinate existing means for conducting war. Historical Examples of Military Revolutions Beginning with the rapid rise of the chariot to battlefield dominance in the eighteenth century BC, the historical record provides evidence of at least a dozen cases of revolutionary change in the conduct of war. The modern period in general and the past two centuries in particular have witnessed the greatest rate of change. Since the early fifteenth century, the conduct of war has been radically altered eight times. Six of these transformations have occurred within the past 200 years alone.