In 2014, the United States Army Research Laboratory published a report predicting what the battlefield of 2050 would look like.

Not surprisingly, it was a scenario driven largely by technology and the report described a sort of warfare most people associate with video games or science-fiction movies - combined forces of augmented or enhanced humans, robots operating in swarms, laser weapons, intelligence systems and cyberbots fighting in a highly contested information environment using spoofing, hacking, misinformation and other means of electronic warfare.