Introduction to the Information-Technology Revolution in Military Affairs

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Acknowledgements

For their comments and contributions the authors would like to thank the participants of the ‘Military Theory in the Post-Cold War Era’ conference (24–25 June 2009) in Oslo, hosted by the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies in cooperation with King's College, London and the Norwegian Command and Staff College. Special thanks are due to Rear Admiral Louise Dedichen, Norwegian Defence University College, Professor Rolf Tamnes, director of the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Colonel/Professor John Andreas Olsen, Norwegian Command and Staff College, and to the editors of the Journal of Strategic Studies Thomas G. Mahnken and Joe A. Maiolo for their administrative and scientific support.

Notes

¹Dima Adamsky, The Culture of Military Innovation: the Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US and Israel (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP 2010).

²Avi Kober, ‘The Israel Defense Forces in the Second Lebanon War: Why the Poor Performance?’Journal of Strategic Studies 31/1 (Feb. 2008), 3–40.

³Distinction between the wartime and peacetime innovation is taken from Stephen Peter Rosen, Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP 1991).

⁴See ‘Military Power: A Roundtable Review’, Journal of Strategic Studies 28/3 (July 2005), 413–69.

⁵For example, see Stephen Biddle, ‘Speed Kills? Reassessing the Role of Speed, Precision and Situational Awareness in the Fall of Saddam’, Journal of Strategic Studies 30/1 (Feb. 2007), 3–46.

⁶Adamsky, The Culture of Military Innovation, 1–2.

⁷A.A. Kokoshin, O revoliutcii v voennom dele v proshlom i nastoiaschem (Moscow: URSS 2006), 36; Innovatcionnye vooruzhennye sily i revoliutciia v voennom dele (Moscow: URSS 2009); Teknokratiia, tekhnokraty I neotekhnokraty (Moscow: URSS 2010), 66–7.

⁸Remarks by Azar Gat and Lawrence Freedman, concluding roundtable of the international conference ‘Modern Military Theory – a Critical Examination’, Norwegian Defense Univ., Oslo, 24–25 June 2009.

⁹The term taken from Rosen, Winning the Next War.