Owl of Minerva Flies at Twilight: Doctrinal Change and Continuity and theRevolution in Military Affairs

摘要

Revolutions in military affairs (RMA) are caused by changes in technology and theconcomitant adjustments of doctrine and training to those changes. The author argues that continuity is also an essential ingredient of the revolution, particularly as it applies to the overall U.S. military doctrinal framework that has evolved since the Vietnam War. A mix of continuity and change in that framework will carry it well and effectively into the current RMA. Significant problems could arise, particularly in terms of using the fruits of the revolution to apply force across the range of military operations. But, the author concludes, those problems, as in past RMAs, have more to do with politics and civil-military relations and cannot be fully addressed by military doctrine alone. Military Technological Revolution(MTR), Revolution in military affairs, Information technologies, Precision strike weaponry, Communication-information breakthroughs.