The end of the bipolar division of the world decreased the threat of nuclear annihilation. Nevertheless, it also triggered dormant contradictions. The world is witnessing armed conflicts that challenge both politicians and military men. Thus a characteristic feature of the 21st century armed conflicts will be their “civilised” character, which means that political tasks will be reached not only as a result of using military power but political, economic and informational ones as well. However, not the use of force but the threat of its use will become a determinant. Armed conflicts will be characteristic for information society and civilisation taking advantage of its possibilities but they will be also subordinated to geo-politics and geo-economy. They will be also waged between non-states or in their interest but, first of all, they will be more complex, multidimensional and will have different forms. Military operations will more often serve to take advantage of opportunities and not to counteract threats. Commanding the troops will be replaced with commanding armed fighting. The role of military and civil integration will increase, as military activities will be more seldom a planned means of politics, more often, however, an effect of escalation in situations of non-military means ineffectiveness. They will be more asymmetrical and indirect, more surprising and difficult to forecast.
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This article is a continuation of the contents published in “Zeszyty Naukowe AON” no 2 where the author presented his views on information in processes taking place in the armed fighting area. In this article the author considers military art development tendencies through the information aspect. He defines and accounts for general conditions of current and future operations both in information technologies and in information support of future operations. There have been stressed threats, the effect of particular countries (or coalitions) information advantage, resulting from the need to adjust to it by countries (or coalitions) that do not have technological or financial possibilities to reach it.
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