The Death of the RMA

[Lastdingo]

I agree, too.
But he scratches on the surface. The IDF could have done more if it just had pressed for it. My infos on that war are not comprehensive, but it's quite obvious that more ruthless orders would have yielded more success at higher costs.
The same lessons learned as Lind mentions for the Second Lebanon War were already learned in the aftermath of the Kosovo Air War, albeit limited ti air warfare.

RMA will probably work well in open terrain (like the Russian plains and Arabian deserts) and such an approach might help to control the open terrain between closed terrains, but overall technology is just a tool and not war itself.

The technology-centric approach would have ran into other serious and predictable problems anyway in the near future imho: http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=3331


edit: I'll remember this one

Army's Future Contract System

This will surely be a nice quote on many occasions.