Secret Technology warfare is the term used for a tactic centric method of warfare involving the ongoing development of advance technology capable (in theory) of making the enemies technology systems obsolete, but held in secret so that a true assessment is difficult to be made as a central component of the methods of war.  
  While strongly relying upon the strengths of psychological warfare, secret technology warfare requires that actual research and development, including the existence of advanced technology prototypes exist. While many secret technology projects result in weapon systems that are capable of accomplishing their original claim, many fail to materialize. The strength therefore is the implication to the enemy that a secret technology could work.
  
  Secret technology development hit is high point (to date) during the Cold War in which a stalemate on nuclear technology resulted in warfare occurring across a range of non-lethal fronts. It is Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” program which is heralded in some significant part to being the final straw that broke the back of the Soviet military machine as it simply was unable to compete with such secret technology.
  
     
     
     
 

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