Since the end of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, there has been growing
discussion of the possibility that technological advances in the
means of combat would produce ftmdamental changes in how future
wars will be fought. A number of observers have suggested that the
nature of war itself would be transformed. Some proponents of this
view have gone so far as to predict that these changes would
include great reductions in, if not the outright elimination of,
the various impediments to timely and effective action in war for
which the Prussian theorist and soldier Carl von Clausewitz
(1780-1831) introduced the term "friction." Friction in war, of
course, has a long historical lineage. It predates Clausewitz by
centuries and has remained a stubbornly recurring factor in combat
outcomes right down to the 1991 Gulf War. In looking to the future,
a seminal question is whether Clausewitzian friction would succumb
to the changes in leading-edge warfare that may lie ahead, or
whether such impediments reflect more enduring aspects of war that
technology can but marginally affect. It is this question that the
present essay will examine.
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