Slowing military change
By: Zhivan J. Alach.
Contributors: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Carlisle, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781584873679
Subjects: United States. -- Effect of technology on; Military planning -- Effect of technological innovations on; Command and control systems -- Effect of technology on; Military weapons -- Technological innovations -- United States; United States -- Armed Forces -- Operational readiness
Description: This monograph revises, reexamines, and reevaluates the contemporary military environment. It finds that the environment is a period of relative military stasis, of slow technological development, and of little novelty in broader issues. If anything, it is a return to an older period, of the time before the Cold War, before the fear of nuclear war dominated all other thinking in the field. This monograph is a first step in a broader and more incisive revision of contemporary strategic thought.
Notes: "October 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-98).

Available via SSI website.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Summary; title: Introduction; title: A  Representative Program - The F-22; title: Development of American Fighters; title: Development Times; title: Performance Gains; title: Development of Soviet Tanks; title: Development of Cruisers; title: Relative Military Stasis - Historical Comparisons; title: Development of Information Technology; title: Cause One: Darwinian Response; title: Cause Two: Governmental Culture and Structure; title: Cause Three: Technology Issues; title: Criticizing Relative Military Stasis; title: The Revolution in Military Affairs; title: Broader Issues of the Strategic Environment; title: Separating the Cold War and Post-Cold War Periods; title: The Revolution in Attitudes towards the Military; title: Need for Further Analysis; title: Conclusion; title: Endnotes.