For much of the 1990s, the US defence department looked to the future using a framework that it called the revolution in military affairs.
Fresh from an easy victory against Iraq in 1991, American military thinkers concluded that the future of warfare would have the US dominating what it called the “battlespace” through information and communication systems, using technology to launch precision attacks on targets from afar with the help of superiority in the air. Armies could travel light, protected by firepower from the air and from artillery deep behind the lines. An enemy’s military could be destroyed without undue bloodshed.
