The Unfinished Revolution in Military Affairs

摘要

In the early 1990s, the Department of Defense's (DOD's) Office of Net Assessment concluded that the world was probably entering a period of military revolution, or "revolution in military affairs." DOD's leadership soon accepted that a military revolution was under way and that the U.S. military would need to transform itself into a different kind of fighting force in order to meet new kinds of challenges, as well as to exploit the potential of rapidly advancing information-related technologies that seemed to be driving dramatic change in so many other areas of human endeavor. A decade and a series of stunning U.S. military operations later, it would be easy to conclude that the revolution has arrived. A closer inspection of the evidence, however, indicates that such a conclusion is probably premature.