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Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
The Revolution In Military Affairs: The Historian’s Perspective
Dr. Jeremy Black, Department of History, Exeter University
Abstract
The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), a phrase much employed over the last decade, is at once description, analysis, prospectus and missionÍž and much of the confusion surrounding the use of the term reflects a failure to distinguish between these aspects of the situation. As such, the treatment of the RMA is an aspect of the more general discussion of revolutions in military affairs, a discussion pushed forward by interest in the RMA, although their very existence is problematic and it might, instead, be suggested that we are dealing with simply one variant of a more or less usual evolution.