Past Revolutions,  Future Transformations
Subtitle: What Can the History of Military Revolutions in Military Affairs Tell Us About Transforming the U.S. Military?
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: May 25, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780833027092
Subjects: Military engineering; Warfare & Defence; Organization; Military Science; Technology; History - Military / War; United States; Science/Mathematics; Research; Military - Strategy; Reference / Research; Armed Forces; Military art and science; Military history
First sentence: As illustrated by the Gulf War, recent advances in technology have brought about dramatic changes in military operations: the use of low-observable aircraft to negate air defenses, smart weapons for precision conventional-strike operations, the employment of both ballistic missiles and antiballistic missiles (ABMs) in conventional warfare, and so forth.