Revolution in military affairs

Her research focuses on Western knowledge production about war and strategy and its effects on practice.

Her doctoral research at King's analyzed the rise and fall of fashionable concepts in strategic studies, with a particular focus on the life cycle of concepts such as revolution in military affairs, counterinsurgency, and hybrid warfare.

The book based on her thesis is by Oxford University Press.

Chiara is also the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies and is part of the Advisory Committee of Women in International Security in the United Kingdom.

eternal principles, then one of them would certainly be that any good strategy has to be tailored to the adversary.

And so this is... something that many of those fashionable concepts don't do.

One example I look at is the revolution in military affairs and the assumption in the United States was that this approach, this very techno-optimistic approach, would work against any state actor independently of who they are, independent of the specific context of the conflict.

So it's a very strategic outlook on war.

And there was neither the political will nor the forces in being anymore for America to force, to enforce the Truman doctrine and kind of the direct aid of these, you know, friendly states under siege by communist elements.

And, you know, the military itself, you know, the draft had ended and the Revolution of Military Affairs hadn't, you know, gotten off and been implemented yet in any meaningful way.

Although these weapon systems, this command and control technology, like, did exist.

It just hadn't been integrated into you know, force structures in being in a meaningful way yet.

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I think people somewhat misunderstand that aspect of it.

But be as it may, the reason why the subject of the speech to the, the Presidium, he said, "We're going to lose the Cold War if we don't take drastic measures to-- countermeasures against REMA," you know, the Revolution of Military Affairs.

And he was speaking specifically of computing power and command and control aspects, which was true.

There was, there was something, there was something insane.

And finally, America only ended the military draft in 1973.

The last time America deployed... forces into an open-ended combat situation was vietnam the democratic party their platform consistently was hostile to uh military industrial interests as a matter of course um The revolution in military affairs, first of all, people like the common man or woman are kind of ignorant in military affairs anyway.

But they had no concept of REMA.

They had no concept of what was different about, you know, waging a counterinsurgency war with conventional elements like in Southeast Asia in a Cold War context, which... axiomatically limited the operational environment.

They have no concept of why that is radically different than waging a conventional war in the desert against a country like Iraq.

Like, that was really already kind of burgeoning.

I believe that was for the court of world opinion and particularly for, you know, the Arab street, you know, and encouraging them to identify, you know, America and the coalition as this kind of savior element you know, that was best suited to combat this great evil that, you know, had befallen the kingdom, potentially, and that, you know, was already, you know, was already engaged in gross, gross acts of a terrifying nature in Kuwait.

So, I mean, there's a lot here, you know, it wasn't just a matter of, this wasn't Aside from the fact it was the first open-ended military deployment since the Vietnam War, it was the first real operational test of the post-REMA, you know, RAMA, Relative Military Affairs Army.