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The recent publications 'Four Battlegrounds', 'War Transformed' and the 'Origins of Victorty' are all worthy additions to the field and have considerable merits of their own.
The validity of Western visions on the future of war prior to the start of the war on 24 February 2022 can be interrogated by confronting them with the evolution of that war and shows it contains features of several visions of the future but also paradoxical ones.
Building on Jacob Borresen’s theory of the ‘coastal state’, in which not the navy as such but rather the unique characteristics of the coastal state as a (small) maritime nation served as its starting point, the notion of the small seapower state, with the Netherlands as an example, can be introduced.
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The Nexus volume 'De oorlog en de toekomst' is worth reading on the unfailingly intriguing topic of war and the future.
China is effectively developing a three-sea-force with an evolving division of labor, in which the irregular forces gradually assume China’s near-seas objectives in order to allow the navy to increasingly focus on its blue-seas missions and capabilities.
