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This report examines the hisotry of RMAs, to see what can be learned from them regarding the challenge confronting the DoD today.
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Past Revolutions, Future Transformations : What Can the History of Revolutions in Military Affairs Tell Us About Transforming the U.S. Military?
author
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Hundley, Richard O.
publisher
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RAND
isbn10 | asin
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0833027093
print isbn13
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9780833027092
ebook isbn13
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9780585163857
language
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English
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Military art and science, Military history, United States--Armed Forces--Organization.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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U104.H89 1999eb
ddc
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355.4/0973
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Military art and science, Military history, United States--Armed Forces--Organization.
The research described in this report was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The research was conducted in RAND's National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center supported by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the unified commands, and the defense agencies, Contract DASW01-95-C-0059.
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Hundley, Richard O. Past revolutions, future transformations : what can the history of revolutions in military affairs tell us about transforming the U.S. military? / Richard O. Hundley. p. cm "Prepared for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) by RAND's National Defense Research Institute." "MR-1029-DARPA." Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-8330-2709-3 1. Military art and science. 2. Military history. 3. United StatesArmed ForcesOrganization. I. Title. U104.H89 1999 355.40973dc21 99-25786 CIP
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Past Revolutions, Future Transformations
What can the history of revolutions in military affairs tell us about transforming the U.S. military?
Richard O. Hundley
Prepared for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Approved for public release; distribution unlimited
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PREFACE
The history of the 20th century has shown that advances in technology can bring about dramatic changes in military operations, often termed "revolutions in military affairs" or RMAs. Technology-driven RMAs have been occurring since the dawn of history, they will continue to occur in the future, and they will continue to bestow a military advantage on the first nation to develop and use them. Accordingly, it is important to the vitality and robustness of the U.S. defense posture for the Department of Defense (DoD) research and development (R&D) community to be aware of technology developments that could revolutionize military operations, and for the U.S. military services to be on the lookout for revolutionary ways in which to employ those technologies in warfare.
This leads to three interrelated questions:
Regarding past revolutions in military affairs (RMAs),
What lessons can we learn from the historical record?
Regarding being prepared for future RMAs carried out by others,
What does it take to be prepared?
Regarding transforming U.S. military forces by carrying out our own RMAs,
What does it take to be successful?
This report addresses these questions, which are particularly relevant today when the DoD has set out on a concerted effort to bring about a technology-driven transformation of the U.S. military to achieve
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the operational goals outlined in Joint Vision 2010 (Shalikashvili, 1996).
This research was sponsored by the Director's Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and conducted by the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of RAND's National Defense Research Institute (NDRI). NDRI is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the defense agencies, and the unified commands.
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