[infowar.de] EJIR Warfare Transformed : A Braudelian Perspective on the 'Revolution in Military Affairs']

[Olivier Minkwitz <minkwitz -! - hsfk - de>]

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European Journal of International Relations

Volume 08 Issue 02 - Publication Date: 1 June 2002

Warfare Transformed : A Braudelian Perspective on the 'Revolution in
Military Affairs'

Andrew Latham Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota, USA

Despite the historical patina of much of the extant literature, most of
the scholarship on the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) reflects a
profoundly
superficial and ahistorical understanding of the changing nature of
warfare. To be sure, this literature is not lacking in historical detail
and analogy - indeed,
one of its defining characteristics is a self-conscious attempt to use
history alternatively to 'prove' the RMA thesis and to illuminate the
transhistorical
dynamics of radical change in the nature of war. But these historical
references are almost exclusively to transformations in the nature of
warfighting. The
purpose of this article is to address the problem of ahistoricism by
reconnecting changes in the nature of warfighting to both broader
transformations in the
social organization of warfare and deeper changes in the nature of war
as an historically constructed social institution.


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