War is a characteristic of virtually every human society and civilization in nearly every era of human history for which some sort of records exist. However, until the fifteenth century most military conflicts were fought using largely the same...

It was first proposed by Michael Roberts in 1955. On 21 January of that year, he delivered a lecture before the Queen's University of Belfast; later published as an article, "The Military Revolution, 1560–1660", that has fuelled debate in historical...

Admiral Owens believes that technology can all but eliminate this "fog of war" During next year's Quadrennial Defense Review, one of the most important questions may be how the United States responds to the so-- called Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). Many senior...

"The military implications of new organizational sciences that examine internetted, nonhierarchical versus hierarchical management models are yet to be fully understood." TRADOC Pam 525-5, Force XXI Operations [1] Digitization of the battlefield is producing a revolution in military affairs, but not...

A Colombian rebel leader was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday and labeled a terrorist for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostage as part of a decades-long struggle with the Colombian government.Though he denounced terrorism and said he hoped the hostages would be released,...

This essay is about the debate over whether a military revolution occured in the early modern period or whether there was a continuous advancement of technology and tactics