Contemporary Military Innovation

Between Anticipation and Adaption

Dima Adamsky (Harvard University, USA), Kjell Inge Bjerga

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Routledge
21 May 2012

Series: Cass Military Studies

This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption.

The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character of war. Known as the Information-Technology Revolution in Military Affairs (IT-RMA), this innovation served as an intellectual foundation for the US defence transformation from the 1990s onwards. Since the mid-1990s, professional ideas generated within the American defence milieu have been further disseminated to military communities across the globe, with huge impact on the conduct of warfare.

With chapters written by leading scholars in this field, this work sheds light on RMAs in general and the IT-RMA in the US, in particular. The authors analyse how military practice and doctrines were developed on the basis of the IT-RMA ideas, how they were disseminated, and the implications of them in several countries and conflicts around the world.

This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, defence studies, war and technology, and security studies in general.

Edited by: Dima Adamsky (Harvard University USA), Kjell Inge Bjerga
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9780415523363
ISBN 10: 0415523362
Series: Cass Military Studies
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 21 May 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is Assistant Professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the IDC Herzliya, and Affiliate at the National Security Studies Program at Harvard University. Kjell Inge Bjerga is Assistant Professor and head of Civil-Military Relations at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies in Oslo.