Pentagon's latest vision of future battlefields sounds alarm on commercial technologies

By Tony Bertuca / August 19, 2016 at 1:15 PM
The battlefield in 2035 is likely to feature adversaries with the ability to leverage an array of cheap, commercially available technologies to counter U.S. military objectives, according to one of the key predictions in a recent report from the Joint Staff. The Defense Department must anticipate the "weaponization of commercial technologies" over the next two decades, according to the Joint Operating Environment document released last month. "In the future, the Joint Force may confront heavily-armed violent extremists operating in the...

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