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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bowers, Ian
• Kirchberger, Sarah

Titel

Not so disruptive after all: The 4IR, navies and the search for sea control

Ist Teil von

• Journal of strategic studies, 2021-06, Vol.44 (4), p.613-636

Ort / Verlag

London: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and their applicability at sea now dominate debates about the future of naval operations. This article examines the extent to which such technologies, including autonomous and unmanned weapon systems and artificial intelligence, will disrupt naval warfare. Using two case studies, the South China Sea and the Baltic Sea, this article finds that in the key operational output of attaining sea control these technologies will not disrupt naval warfare. While they may intensify the competition between the operational attributes of detection, stealth, range and lethality, they will ultimately sustain existing understandings of seapower and its strategic effects.