CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN WARFARE AND THE NATURE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE PARADIGM OF THE COMPLEXITY OF INFORMATION AGE
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN WARFARE AND THE NATURE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE PARADIGM OF THE COMPLEXITY OF INFORMATION AGE

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to identify and analyse how the complexity of the 21st century Information Age transforms war, regarded as a violent behaviour of states at the level of the international system, and extends the classical typology of use of military power through military operations. Thus, a comparison is made between the two forms of warfare, traditional and asymmetrical (irregular), taking into account a homogeneous set of criteria: the actors involved, the strategic objectives, the status of civilians and the way of concluding the war. As regards the nature of military operations, we identify the augmentation of the classic set of combat and stability operations with that of crisis response operations, limited by contingency, military engagement, security cooperation, and deterrence operations. This article represents a partial dissemination of the results obtained in the 3rd report of the doctoral programme at the Doctoral School of “Carol I” National Defence University to support the thesis entitled “Operational management determinations specific to the modern war based on the complexity theory”.

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