CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MODERN FACE OF WAR
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MODERN FACE OF WAR

Author(s): Ilie ANGIU
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, Political behavior, Comparative politics
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: war; armed struggle; technology; modern forces;
Summary/Abstract: The specific means of war is the armed struggle, which is destructive. By triggering a war, politics pursues its aims, but uses other means, the means of armed struggle. Armies are closely linked to technological developments. They are the first beneficiaries of technical and scientific progress. Contemporary military conflicts have highlighted new orientations and concepts of military action, characterized by complexity,mobility, dynamism, the use of high technology and almost totally professional forces,integrated actions of all categories of forces and arms genres. The space for the armedstruggle in its terrestrial, aerial, maritime and cosmic dimension tends to becomeincreasingly integrated, completely cybernetic, with increasing tendencies to expand into theelectromagnetic environment based on spectacular developments in the technical-scientificfield.

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