MOSCOW. Jan 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Ukrainian military theorists are looking into the sixth-generation warfare to determine the way for the national armed forces to go, Ukrainian Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff Oleksandr Zatynayko said at the conference "Problems of Modern Military Leadership and Its Perfection in View of Future Warfare" that took place in Moscow on January 24.
"New processes are going on in armed warfare. We are analyzing the essence of probable future military conflicts, and most interested we are in so-called sixth-generation wars," he said.
The general said that in the future so-called non- conventional (psychological and information) arms could alter the goals and essence of armed combat into, for example, keeping from securing enemy territory.
Zatynayko said that not securing the territory but rendering desired changes to strategic sites or operation thereof within the same territory would be a priority.
According to him, smart weapons will become a main tool of war but not all countries will change for the sixth generation of warfare at a time. Some of them due to their economic capabilities will stick to the fourth generation, others to nuclear deterrence strategy characteristic of the fifth generation. The most advanced armies use sixth-generation war concepts, he said.
"The formation of new spheres of power and distribution of existing ones among international centers brings about a danger for Ukraine to be out of these processes, in the so-called 'twilight zone'. Under these conditions, rapid movement of our state towards European and Euro-Atlantic integration is well justified," Zatynayko said.