Toward a Revolution in Military Affairs?: Defense and Security at the Dawn of the Twenty-First CenturyThierry Gongora, Harald von Riekhoff Bloomsbury Academic, 2000 M05 30 - 206 pages The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), unleashed by the integration of information technologies into weapons systems, military units, and operations is a phenomenon whose impacts have been felt well beyond the Gulf in 1991 or the Balkans in 1999. Technological developments lie at the center of these changes; however, the RMA is about more than technology. It includes the consequences of technological changes for defense and security. This study provides an assessment of the RMA that goes beyond a mere description of new defense-related technologies to deal with deeper, more fundamental issues. |