It rolled back the consensus and reinstituted the principle of massing forces in response to crisis. Thus the joint community walked up to doctrinal transformation, looked it in the eye, and ran from it. On the other hand, we have seen the Army move out boldly to replace its heavy divisions with lighter forces and its tanks with wheeled combat vehicles. Transformation is hard to define. Its most ardent disciples often speak in nebulous generalities about the future.
Current systems get minimal respect.
Evolutionary progress is not always recognized, even when there is a lot of it. Today's precision strike capability, for example, is an enormous leap from what was possible 10 years ago, but you'd never know it from reading the newspaper commentaries. Some theoreticians say transformation is about ideas and concepts, and up to a point, it is. But it is also financial. In the end, it comes down to which new initiatives will be started, which old programs will survive, and which ones will be canceled or curtailed.