THE DILEMMA OF THE MILITARY.

The article focuses on the security challenges faced by the armed forces of nations across the globe with the advent of the Atomic Age. According to military experts, unless the military professional more quickly grasps the true meaning of the quantum jump in the gradient of warfare, that has resulted from the thermonuclear-tipped ballistic missile and adapts to it, he is likely to become its victim rather than its beneficiary. World powers face the prospect of true strategic warfare which for the first time in history threatens their very existence in the most literal sense and not in the jingoistic sense in which war propagandists previously have used the expression.