Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA) and the permanency of Clausewitz's trinitarian theory of war : can RMA change the nature of war?

• Main Author: Sia, Mitchell Chiao Min.
• Other Authors: Loo Fook Weng, Bernard
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39395
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the 1991 Gulf War, RMA proponents have argued that the current wave of self-conscious RMA has changed the nature of war. The purpose of this dissertation is to study if this is indeed a valid claim by using Clausewitz's Trinitarian theory to explore what war is. On that basis, we can appr...