More than Semantics: the Difference Between the Concepts of “Military Revolution” and “Revolution in Military Affairs”
More than Semantics: the Difference Between the Concepts of “Military Revolution” and “Revolution in Military Affairs”

Summary/Abstract: For the last fifty years the idea of military revolution, (MR) introduced by Michael Roberts, was one of the main concepts in the field of military history. Accord¬ing to him, the tactical changes introduced by Dutch and Swedish commanders at the beginning of the 17th century led to revolutionary changes in the social and political spheres. Roberts’ idea of MR gave a theoretical framework, which helped to connect simple technological and tactical changes with the development and transformation of the state. From the early 1990’s another concept, revolution in military affairs (RMA) also became very popular in academic, military and political circles around the world, especially in the U.S. The American successes in the First Gulf war, the growing impor¬tance of information, precision and stealth technologies forced experts in the military field to start speak about revolutionary changes in the warfare. The RMA was associated with changes[…]

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