The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia

250 Pages·2004·1.14 MB·English

by  Emily Goldman

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he nformation evolution
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in ilitary ffairs in sia
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Edited by
Emily O. Goldman
and
Thomas G. Mahnken
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THEINFORMATIONREVOLUTIONINMILITARYAFFAIRS
© Emily Goldman and Thomas Mahnken,2004
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1.Information warfare—East Asia.2.Information warfare-Australia.
3.Military art and science-East Asia—History-21st century.4.Military art
and science-Australia—History-21st century.5.East Asia—Defenses.
6.Australia—Defenses.7.World politics—1995–2005 I.Goldman,Emily O.,
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Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors ix
1. Introduction: Military Diffusion and Transformation 1
Emily O. Goldman
2. Australia’s Approach to the Revolution in
Military Affairs, 1994–2004 23
Michael Evans
3. All the Way with the RMA?: The Maginot Line
in the Mind of Australian Strategic Planners 57
Adam Cobb
4. The Japanese Perception of the Information
Technology-Revolution in Military Affairs: Toward
a Defensive Information-Based Transformation 81
Sugio Takahashi
5. Learning and Catching Up: China’s Revolution in
Military Affairs Initiative 97
You Ji
6. China’s Revolution in Military Affairs: Rattling Mao’s Army 125
Andrew Nien-Dzu Yang
7. Taiwan and the Revolution in Military Affairs 139
James Mulvenon
8. Taiwan: From Integrated Missile Defense to RMA? 167
Arthur S. Ding
9. Singapore and the Revolution in Military Affairs 185
Tim Huxley
10. Conclusion: The Diffusion of the Emerging Revolution in
Military Affairs in Asia: A Preliminary Assessment 209
Thomas G. Mahnken
Index 225
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his book would not have come about without the support of Mr. Andrew
W. Marshall, Director of Net Assessment in the U.S. Department of Defense.
In addition, a number of people helped make this book a reality, includ-
ing Steve Ayling, Ross Babbage, Desmond Ball, Paul Dibb, James R.
FitzSimonds, and Narushige Michishita. We would also like to thank our
research assistants: Ani Ahn, Leo Blanken, Satoshi Shimada, and John
Kennedy.
We would also like to thank our editor at Palgrave Macmillan, Mr. Toby
Wahl, as well as his assistant, Heather van Dusen, for their enthusiastic
support of this project.
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dam Cobb is the founder and Director of Stratwise, Australia’s first
privately funded national security think tank. He has held a range of inter-
national academic and government positions, including Special Director—
Strategic Policy in Air Force Headquarters, Senior Defence Adviser in the
Federal Parliament, the University of Amsterdam, the Strategic and Defence
Studies Centre (ANU), and Sydney University. Cobb has also worked in the
Australian Embassy in Washington DC and for a member of the U.S. House
of Representatives. Considered an authority on asymmetric warfare, his
analysis is regularly sought by the BBC, ABC, commercial TV News, news-
papers and radio. Most recently, he was commissioned by SBS World News
(broadcast nationally in Australia) as a military analyst providing commen-
tary and analysis of the 2003 Gulf War for the nightly news.
Arthur S. Ding is a Research Fellow at the Research Division III (China
Politics) of the Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi
University in Taipei, Taiwan. His research focuses on China security and
defense issues. He has published China’s Military Theory in Change:
1979–1991 and Defense Industry Conversion in China, as well as numerous
articles. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar associated with Harvard
University’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He obtained his Ph.D.
in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre
Dame in 1987.
Michael Evans is Head of the Australian Army’s Land Warfare Studies
Centre (LWSC) at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra. He
has served on the staff of Australian Land Headquarters and in the Australian
Directorate of Army Research and Analysis. Dr. Evans is a graduate in his-
tory and war studies of the universities of Rhodesia (B.A. Hons), London
(M.A.) and Western Australia (Ph.D.). He has been a Sir Alfred Beit Fellow
in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, University of London
and a Visiting Fellow at the University of York in England. He recently co-
edited (with Alan Ryan) a major study of future war, Future Armies, Future
Challenges: Land Warfare in the Information Age (Allen & Unwin, Sydney,
2003). He is currently writing a book entitled, Military Theory and 21st
Century Warfare: The Legacy of the Past and the Challenge of the Future.
Emily O. Goldman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of California, Davis, and Director of the UC Davis Washington