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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Military Revolutions and the Iraq Wars | p. 1 |
1991, A New Kind of War? | p. 1 |
Revolutions and Military Revolutions | p. 3 |
The Contemporary Debate | p. 9 |
RMA Skepticism | p. 15 |
Thinking about a New RMA | p. 19 |
The Iraq Wars | p. 21 |
Conclusion: Theory, Policy, and a Contemporary RMA | p. 25 |
From Vietnam to Iraq - The Rebirth of American Military Power and the Origins of an RMA | p. 26 |
The First Iraq War | p. 26 |
The First Glimmers of Revolution | p. 27 |
After Vietnam: Constraints and Challenges | p. 31 |
Countering Soviet Superiority | p. 35 |
A Revolution in Training | p. 37 |
A Revolution in Technology | p. 39 |
A Revolution in Doctrine | p. 46 |
Conclusion | p. 51 |
The First Iraq War, 1991 - A Revolution Dawns? | p. 53 |
The Road to War | p. 53 |
The War Plan | p. 56 |
The War | p. 63 |
The Strategic Air Campaign | p. 64 |
Preparing the Battlefield | p. 67 |
The Ground Campaign | p. 73 |
Evaluating the First Iraq War | p. 76 |
What Kind of Victory? | p. 76 |
What Kind of Revolution? | p. 79 |
Conclusion | p. 88 |
The Iraqi Interregnum, 1991-2000 | p. 91 |
The Calm After the Storm | p. 91 |
Technology Advances | p. 93 |
Munitions | p. 94 |
Sensors | p. 95 |
Communications | p. 97 |
Intervention in Somalia, 1992-1993 | p. 99 |
The Lessons of Somalia | p. 101 |
Military Operations Other Than War | p. 104 |
The RMA and Network-Centric Warfare | p. 108 |
The System of Systems | p. 109 |
Rapid Dominance: ôShock and Aweö | p. 111 |
Net-Centric Warfare | p. 113 |
Kosovo: NATO's ôCurious Little Warö | p. 116 |
Operation Allied Force | p. 118 |
Evaluating OAF | p. 120 |
Air-Centric versus Network-Centric Warfare | p. 127 |
Conclusion | p. 129 |
Afghanistan and the Second Iraq War, 2001-2003 - A Revolution Confirmed? | p. 131 |
Bush, Rumsfeld, and Military Transformation | p. 131 |
The Afghan Prelude | p. 134 |
The ôAfghan Modelö | p. 135 |
Evaluating the ôAfghan Modelö | p. 138 |
The Second Iraq War, 2003 | p. 142 |
The Battle Over the War Plan | p. 143 |
The Opposing Forces | p. 148 |
The War: Operation Iraqi Freedom | p. 150 |
Evaluating the Second Iraq War | p. 158 |
Rumsfeld Vindicated? | p. 159 |
OIF and the RMA: Precision, Information, Jointness, and Parallel War | p. 163 |
The ôDigital Divideö | p. 168 |
Conclusion | p. 171 |
The Third Iraq War, 2003-? - A Revolution Denied? | p. 173 |
Liberation to Occupation | p. 173 |
Disorder and Insurgency | p. 174 |
A Budding Insurgency | p. 177 |
April 2004: A Very Bad Month | p. 180 |
Summer 2004: Finally, a Strategy | p. 183 |
2005: Elections, Governance, and Insurgency | p. 187 |
2006: Insurgency and Civil War? | p. 190 |
The Rise of Counterinsurgents | p. 192 |
One Last Try, with a Little Help | p. 195 |
Evaluating the Third Iraq War | p. 200 |
The Third Iraq War and Military Transformation | p. 202 |
The Third Iraq War and the RMA | p. 206 |
Conclusion | p. 210 |
Conclusion: The Future of America's Military Revolution | p. 213 |
The Nature and Limits of the RMA | p. 214 |
The Iraq Wars and the Future of American Defense Policy | p. 212 |
Priorities | p. 224 |
Fungibility | p. 226 |
Institutions | p. 229 |
Conclusion: ôRe-Balancingö American Defense Policy? | p. 232 |
Index | p. 239 |
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