Future Weapons

by Kevin Dockery

On the battlefield, a soldier's best friends are his gun and his gear-because his life depends on them. But what will it take to fight and survive on the battlefields of tomorrow? What will those combat arenas consist of, and where will they be? And what will our nation's fighting men and women carry with them into battle? This is a compendium of the weapons of war that may accompany our soldiers in the near and far future, as well as an insightful look at the soldier, sailor, and airman of today and tomorrow. All manner of military hardware is covered, as well as information about cutting-edge technology that will become standard in weapons to come, the possibility of robotic soldiers, vehicles, protective armor, and the prospects of fighting a war in both space and cyberspace.

Genres: Nonfiction

336 pages, ebook

First published March 6, 2007

Reviews

[Kym Robinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interestingly and well written book which has a fun style while covering a some what generic subject as far as military writing goes.

I think that the author did well and really mixes the book up nicely and while including some elements of creativity married with the important dry facts one can expect from such a book. A nice addition to ones fire arm collection as well as military both historical and modern libraries.

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[Andrew Shapter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Something I would like to have read before I wrote Snowblind. SNOWBLIND: The Michael Varen Saga It has highlighted a few technical errors I made!

Informative and descriptive, could have done with more illustrations in the more technical aspects of the text for the relative layman like me.

[Matt Maxwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spent an awful lot of time on the history of said weapons instead of the future. If you learn about non-SF reality-based weaponry, you'll have to go through a lot of backstory to get to them. Not really what I was after out of the book.