The Potential Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution Technologies on Revolutionizing the Nato Land Forces

Land Forces Academy Review Vol. XXVI, No. 4(104), 2021 THE POTENTIAL IMPACT TH OF THE 4 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TECHNOLOGIES ON REVOLUTIONIZING THE NATO LAND FORCES Paul TUDORACHE “Nicolae Bălcescu” Land Forces Academy, Sibiu, Romania tudorache.paul@armyacademy.ro Aurelian RAȚIU “Nicolae Bălcescu” Land Forces Academy, Sibiu, Romania ratiu.aurelian@armyacademy.ro ABSTRACT As other society domains, the military one must be able to keep up with the dynamics of permanent changes and this necessity, shaping the capacity of adaptability, represents the most important criterion used to measure the military operational performance. In this regard, the present study aims to analyse one of the 4th Industrial Revolution’s consequences in the military field, as emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs). Also, reviewing the scientific papers in the field and using an empirical research based on observation, the study will focus on clarifying the EDT concept, identifying the EDT agents in the military (NATO context) and, finally, analysing those EDTs suitable for the service of Land Forces in order to determine the potential impact in revolutionizing its combat capabilities. KEYWORDS: Land Forces, EDTs, AI, big data, AWS 1. Introduction 2. Research Methodology Nowadays, one significant challenge The purpose of the study is to that impacts all society’s domains is the estimate the impact of the EDT ability to design, develop and use new applications for boosting the Land Forces technology. Speaking about new technology, service. Some significant research in the international literature there are a lot of objectives are resumed to: terms associated with or derived from this ● Defining the EDT concept and one. From this perspective, emerging and differentiating the terms of emerging disruptive technologies (EDTs), a technology (ET) and disruptive th consequence of the 4 Industrial Revolution, technology (DT); have become...