Futuristic Warfare Technologies

The future of warfare will definitely have to do with technologies and convergence, at least the near one. Some logical developments such as, remote sensing intercontinental UAVs, autonomous warfare, remotely controlled forces, network centric warfare, higher reliance on AI probability and decision-making scenarios, are just warming up the major innovations we're about to witness -- whether defensive or offensive is an entirely different topic. In the very long term though, Nano warfare, Robot wars and Cyber wars reaching the levels of VR warfare, are among the fully realistic scenarios. Very informative slides on the Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare [Circa 2025], and here are some important key points that made me an impression :

Technological Ages of Humankind
- Hunter/Killer groups [ Million BC 10K BC]
- Agriculture [ 10K BC 1800 AD]
- Industrial [1800-1950]
- IT [1950-2020]
- Bio/NANO [2020?]
- Virtual

The developments
- Chem/bio Antifunctionals/Anti fauna
- Binary agents distributed via imported products (Vitamins, Clothing, Food)
- Blast Wave Accelerator - global precision strike "On the Cheap"
- Bio/Chem/Molec./Nano Computing
- Ubiquitous Optical Comms
- Micro/Nano/Ubiquitous Sensors
- BioWeaponry
- Volumetric weaponry
- Cyber/Artificial Life (Beyond AI) -?
- Transoceanic UUV's, UAV's -- Boing's X45 series
- Spherical Submarines to deal with the accoustics issue

To sum up, the best warriors win their battles without waging war -- or at least not against themselves.