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The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Global Defence Industry:
Reactions and Interactions
Author: Richard A. Bitzinger
Volume 4, Number 4 (Summer 2008), pp. 1-11.
Abstract
The belief that modern militaries are on the cusp of a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), driven in particular by recent advances in information technologies (IT) has long been an increasingly powerful and persuasive school of military thought. For more than a decade, in fact, it has been fashionable to acknowledge the IT-led RMA when talking about the future of warfare and war-fighting. To date, however, views about the prospective impact of the RMA on defence industry have shown much less tendency to converge. Hence, while many leading proponents of military reform agree that armed forces must be “transformed” along the lines of the IT-led RMA, the impact of this thinking on national defence industries has varied widely and its implications for international defence industry is not yet clear.
About the Author
Richard A. Bitzinger is a Senior Fellow with the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where his work focuses on military and defence issues relating to the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously an Associate Professor with the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies (APCSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, and has also worked for the RAND Corporation, the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Affairs, and the US Government. He is the author of Towards a Brave New Arms Industry? (Oxford University Press, 2003), ‘Come the Revolution: Transforming the Asia-Pacific’s Militaries’, Naval War College Review (Fall 2005), and Transforming the US Military: Implications for the Asia-Pacific (Australian Strategy Policy Institute, December 2006). He holds a Masters degree from the Monterey Institute of International Affairs and has pursued additional postgraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. isrbitzinger@ntu.edu.sg.
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