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The Revolution in Military Affairs |
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A timely overview of the high-tech nature of the new warfare and its implications for global security.
The war in Afghanistan, the Gulf war, and the NATO bombardment of Kosovo show clearly how advances in information technology are driving a high-tech revolution in military affairs (RMA) and transforming the nature of modern warfare. Elinor Sloan outlines the major elements of the RMA and examines the efforts of the United States, its NATO allies, and others to transform their military forces from the large, industrial-age forces of the Cold War to the smaller, more rapidly deployable yet highly lethal forces of the future. By detailing the diverse dimensions of the RMA, including its appropriateness in anti-terrorist campaigns and its relevance to peace support operations, The Revolution in Military Affairs looks at whether and to what extent the RMA is applicable to future military missions.
Although the RMA has been the subject of much discussion in the United States for over a decade, it has not received the same level of analytic attention in Canada and other NATO and allied countries. Sloan examines the RMA in the context of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in addition to assessing the transformation efforts of the United States Military. She concludes that small and medium military powers such as Canada must, at a minimum, take selected, concrete measures to maximize their military capabilities through the RMA if they are to avoid operational and political marginalisation in the promotion of international peace and security.
Although the RMA has been the subject of much discussion in the United States for over a decade, it has not received the same level of analytic attention in Canada and other NATO and allied countries. Sloan examines the RMA in the context of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in addition to assessing the transformation efforts of the United States Military. She concludes that small and medium military powers such as Canada must, at a minimum, take selected, concrete measures to maximize their military capabilities through the RMA if they are to avoid operational and political marginalisation in the promotion of international peace and security.
Details
Part of the Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies Series (number 5 in series)
192 Pages
ISBN 9780773523944
April 2002
Formats: Paperback, Cloth, eBook
"Sloan has produced a concise yet comprehensive overview of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) as it applies to Canada and its NATO allies. She demystifies many of the concepts surrounding the RMA while providing balanced insights into what the term means to various constituencies. Her analysis of how Canada and its NATO allies are responding to the RMA now and how they can leverage its benefits in the future are particularly relevant to the current world situation. An excellent book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand how the RMA may affect how we conduct military operations in the 21st century." - Allan English, Canadian Forces College, Queen's University and editor of The Changing Faces of War
"An important and timely book. Sloan has taken a very complex problem and summarized it, placing the arguments and consequences about this phenomenon in a Canadian defence and security context ... a valuable addition to the current debate on where Canada is going in national defence." - Douglas Bland, editor of Issues in Defence Management and professor and chair of the Defence Management Studies Programme, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
"A significant contribution to the research on Canadian security policy, filling a gap in the available literature. It provides an understandable and highly informative analysis of the RMA and its implications for Canada." - Joel Sokolsky, Dean of Arts, Royal Military College
"In this tour de force addressing RMA, Elinor Sloan shows an amazing range of detailed understanding, reaching across the breadth of the spectrum from threat analysis to strategy and concomitant policy, into military operations and technology, and from there to economics and the unavoidable philosophical dilemmas. If you want to see what's going on in RMA, read this book." - General John Galvin, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
"This is an outstanding survey of the evolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its implications not only for how future wars will be fought, but also for political-military relations within the Atlantic Alliance. The value of the work is enhanced by reflections on the implications of 9/11 for the RMA and for asymmetric warfare in the twenty-first century. Because of its focus not only on the United States but also other key nations, this will also be necessary reading in Canada and elsewhere having an interest in the emerging defense capabilities gap."Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
"An important and timely book. Sloan has taken a very complex problem and summarized it, placing the arguments and consequences about this phenomenon in a Canadian defence and security context ... a valuable addition to the current debate on where Canada is going in national defence." - Douglas Bland, editor of Issues in Defence Management and professor and chair of the Defence Management Studies Programme, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
"A significant contribution to the research on Canadian security policy, filling a gap in the available literature. It provides an understandable and highly informative analysis of the RMA and its implications for Canada." - Joel Sokolsky, Dean of Arts, Royal Military College
"In this tour de force addressing RMA, Elinor Sloan shows an amazing range of detailed understanding, reaching across the breadth of the spectrum from threat analysis to strategy and concomitant policy, into military operations and technology, and from there to economics and the unavoidable philosophical dilemmas. If you want to see what's going on in RMA, read this book." - General John Galvin, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
"This is an outstanding survey of the evolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its implications not only for how future wars will be fought, but also for political-military relations within the Atlantic Alliance. The value of the work is enhanced by reflections on the implications of 9/11 for the RMA and for asymmetric warfare in the twenty-first century. Because of its focus not only on the United States but also other key nations, this will also be necessary reading in Canada and elsewhere having an interest in the emerging defense capabilities gap."Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Elinor C. Sloan is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, and the author of "Bosnia and the New Collective Security".
