SOC-PHAINov 11, 2025

The Singularity Warfare: The metatheoretical Framework

arXiv:2511.11674v1h-index: 1
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This provides a metatheoretical framework for military strategists and policymakers to anticipate paradigm shifts in warfare, though it is speculative and incremental in synthesizing existing theories.

The paper tackles the problem of understanding future conflict by introducing the 'Singularity Warfare' concept, arguing that technological acceleration is reshaping warfare into a merger of physical and abstract domains where victory depends on maintaining coherence and creating decoherence in adversaries.

This paper introduces the "Singularity Warfare" concept, arguing that the accelerating pace of technological revolution, driven by artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics, is fundamentally reshaping the nature of conflict. Moving beyond traditional "Newtonian" warfare and current military doctrines, this framework posits that future battlefields will be defined by a merger of physical and abstract domains, where human imagination and algorithmic logic become a unified, actionable reality. Victory will hinge on a unit's ability to maintain cognitive and technological "coherence" while creating "decoherence" in the adversary. The paper synthesizes theories from physics, philosophy, and futurology to provide a metatheoretical framework for understanding this paradigm shift.

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