The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1991, A New Kind of War?......Page 15
Revolutions and Military Revolutions......Page 17
The Contemporary Debate......Page 23
RMA Skepticism......Page 29
Thinking about a New RMA......Page 33
The Iraq Wars......Page 35
Conclusion: Theory, Policy, and a Contemporary RMA......Page 39
The First Iraq War......Page 40
The First Glimmers of Revolution......Page 41
After Vietnam: Constraints and Challenges......Page 45
Countering Soviet Superiority......Page 49
A Revolution in Training......Page 51
A Revolution in Technology......Page 53
A Revolution in Doctrine......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 65
The Road to War......Page 67
The War Plan......Page 70
The War......Page 77
The Strategic Air Campaign......Page 78
Preparing the Battlefield......Page 81
The Ground Campaign......Page 87
What Kind of Victory?......Page 90
What Kind of “Revolution?”......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 102
The Calm After the Storm......Page 105
Technology Advances......Page 107
Munitions......Page 108
Sensors......Page 109
Communications......Page 111
Intervention in Somalia, 1992–1993......Page 113
The Lessons of Somalia......Page 115
Military Operations Other Than War......Page 118
The RMA and Net-Centric Warfare......Page 122
The System of Systems......Page 123
Rapid Dominance: “Shock and Awe”......Page 125
Net-Centric Warfare......Page 127
Kosovo: NATO's “Curious Little War”......Page 130
Operation Allied Force......Page 132
Evaluating OAF......Page 134
Air-Centric versus Network-Centric Warfare......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 143
Bush, Rumsfeld, and Military Transformation......Page 145
The Afghan Prelude......Page 148
The “Afghan Model”......Page 149
Evaluating the “Afghan Model”......Page 152
The Second Iraq War, 2003......Page 156
The Battle Over the War Plan......Page 157
The Opposing Forces......Page 162
The War: Operation Iraqi Freedom......Page 164
Evaluating the Second Iraq War......Page 172
Rumsfeld Vindicated?......Page 173
OIF and the RMA: Precision, Information, Jointness, and Parallel War......Page 177
The “Digital Divide”......Page 182
Conclusion......Page 185
Liberation to Occupation......Page 187
Disorder and Insurgency......Page 188
A Budding Insurgency......Page 191
April 2004: A Very Bad Month......Page 194
Summer 2004: Finally, a Strategy......Page 197
2005: Elections, Governance, and Insurgency......Page 201
2006: Insurgency and Civil War?......Page 204
The Rise of Counterinsurgents......Page 206
One Last Try, with a Little Help......Page 209
Evaluating the Third Iraq War......Page 214
The Third Iraq War and Military Transformation......Page 216
The Third Iraq War and the RMA......Page 220
Conclusion......Page 224
Conclusion: the future of America's military revolution
......Page 227
The Nature and Limits of the RMA......Page 228
The Iraq Wars and the Future of American Defense Policy......Page 236
Priorities......Page 238
Fungibility......Page 240
Institutions......Page 243
Conclusion: “Re-Balancing” American Defense Policy?......Page 246
Index......Page 253