Özet:

The concept of national power which is being addressed in the field of geopolitics and military power as one of its subcategories, had two significant transformations with technological developments in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The first of these transformations occurred through a conceptual deepening because of technological developments in the industry with the transitions of Industry 3.0, Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0. The second transformation in the concepts took place in the spatial domain; and by the articulation of outer space and cyberspace, it occurred with the integration of outer space and cyberspace to the evaluation of land, sea, and air domains in the interstate power assessments. The concepts of geopolitics, national power and military power have undergone conceptual deepening and broadening as the result of these two transformations. At this point, the concept of military power has evolved into a form that encompasses autonomous, smart and unmanned technologies by also including space-cyber space equations; beyond its traditional form involving comparisons of tanks, ships, etc. in land, sea and air themes. Now, an era has started where smart munitions and unmanned ground, sea, air vehicles are present on the battlefield. A period has begun in which power measurements include cyber and space capacities, as well as smart and unmanned technologies; while states are establishing their space and cyber commands. This research discusses how technology has transformed the concepts of geopolitics, national power and military power in terms of semantic depth and breadth; and determines how the concept of military power should be approached with its implications on the battlefield in the new era.

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