About the Series
To ensure success, the conduct of war requires rapid and effective adaptation to changing circumstances. While every conflict involves a degree of flexibility and innovation, there are certain changes that have occurred throughout history that stand out because they fundamentally altered the conduct of warfare. The most prominent of these changes have been labeled “Revolutions in Military Affairs” (RMAs). These so-called revolutions include technological innovations as well as entirely new approaches to strategy. Revolutionary ideas in military theory, doctrine, and operations have also permanently changed the methods, means, and objectives of warfare.
This series examines fundamental transformations that have occurred in warfare. It places particular emphasis upon RMAs to examine how the development of a new idea or device can alter not only the conduct of wars but their effect upon participants, supporters, and uninvolved parties. The unifying concept of the series is not geographical or temporal; rather, it is the notion of change in conflict and its subsequent impact. This has allowed the incorporation of a wide variety of scholars, approaches, disciplines, and conclusions to be brought under the umbrella of the series. The works include biographies, examinations of transformative events, and analyses of key technological innovations that provide a greater understanding of how and why modern conflict is carried out, and how it may change the battlefields of the future.
About the Series Editor
Dr. Paul J. Springer is a Professor of Comparative Military Studies in the Department of Airpower at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He holds a PhD in military history from Texas A&M University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including America’s Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror; Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook; Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Laws of War; Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook; and Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution. In addition, he has published hundreds of shorter pieces, on a variety of subjects including military history, terrorism, strategy, technology, and military robotics. Dr. Springer is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the series editor for both the History of Military Aviation and Transforming War series, produced by the U.S. Naval Institute Press. Currently, he is completing a collective biography of the West Point Class of 1829.
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Titles in the Series
- Always at War: Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946–62
- An Untaken Road: Strategy, Technology, and the Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
(available as Print on Demand from Amazon and other online retailers) - Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force
- Blood Money: How Criminals, Militias, Rebels, and Warlords Finance Violence
- Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War
- Cyberspace in Peace and War, Second Edition
- How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874–1918
- Limiting Risk in America’s Wars: Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic Paradigm
- Mars Adapting: Military Change during War
- The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security
- Standing Up Space Force: The Road to the Nation's Sixth Armed Service
- Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower