Some new weapons of warfare are just new ways of using old ones

... officer, shares his views on new warfare and new weapons of war. According to Clausewitz "war is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will". In general, the purpose of traditional weapons of warfare was to enable this. Do new weapons of warfare change Clausewitz’s doctrine? I do not think the Clausewitz doctrine has changed. In fact, the idea of war as an “act of force to compel enemy to do our will” is still the same. The important question is on the modern application of force and the use of ...