Towards the end of the Cold War, Soviet military thinkers coined the phrase “Military-Technical Revolution (MTR).” Based on a combination of extraordinary advances in precision strike and in information and surveillance technologies, the MTR was successfully transformed by the Pentagon into the “Revolution in Military Affairs.” Meant to defeat the Red Army, the RMA was a real military revolution proven in the first Iraq War in 1991 when U.S. arms pulverized Saddam Hussein’s Army; in Afghanistan quickly routing the Taliban in 2001; and again smashing Iraq two years later.
Today, American and certain allied militaries are exhausted by a decade of war. All face large and looming defense cuts meaning far less money for defense. Under these circumstances, readiness and morale become early casualties.
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