Journal article
Outsmarting Technologies: Rhetoric, Revolutions in Military Affairs, and the Social Depth of Warfare
Abstract
At least since the 1991 Gulf War, considerable talk of a revolution in military affairs (RMA) has been excited by the advent of precision-guided munitions (PGMs), themselves widely credited with having changed the nature of warfare. To be sure, so-called ‘smart bombs’ and associated marvels of (principally US) military technology mark a watershed, but it is one that turns as much on the deployment of rhetoric as on PGMs themselves. In …
Authors
Beier JM
Journal
International Politics, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 266–280
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
April 2006
DOI
10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800144
ISSN
1384-5748