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             THE TRANSFORMATION OF WAR AND THE FUTURE OF THE CORPS                        Major Robert David Steele, USMCR                      Cleared for Publication 28 April 1992        The Marine Corps, in combination with supporting Navy elements, is our Nation's "911" force, well‑positioned to serve in a variety of joint, combined, and‑‑if necessary‑‑unilateral roles across the spectrum of combat and non‑combat operations. The Department of the Navy 1992 Posture Statement, and the Remarks of General Carl E. Mundy, Jr. Before Congress (Gazette, April 1992), clearly outline how far we have come revitalizing our traditional emphasis on littoral operations, and how we are preserving...

 Introduction Discussion of the identity of the modern human being tends to be relatively simplistic, requiring little comment. However the extreme dependency resulting from industrialization and development has effectively modified that identity in ways of which there is only a limited degree of recognition. This is an exploration of how the human being has already been effectively transformed into a cyborg through immediate dependence on technology in daily life -- with the technology becoming an extension of that identity. As argued here, using "cyborg"as a cognitive template, similar transformations of identity are associated with human dependence on legislation, finance and medicine -- through which identity is effectively defined. Whilst cyborgs are a theme of imaginative science fiction, possibly characteristic of extraterrestrials (as with reference to the "Borg Collective" of Star Trek fame), the perspective to be explored in what follows is that those imag...