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| Introduction | |
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| The So-Called Revolution in Military Affairs | |
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| Sensors, Computers, and Communications | |
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| Vehicles, Ships, Aircraft, and Weaponry | |
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| Toward a Verdict on the RMA Hypothesis | |
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| The RMA Hypothesis and U.S. Security Policy | |
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| A Defense Modernization Strategy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |
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| Tables | |
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| Visibility of Selected Objects to Radar | |
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| Current and Planned U.S. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | |
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| Maximum Speed of Destroyers over Time | |
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| Demonstration and Validation Budget for Currently Funded Joint Nonlethal Weapons Programs, FY 2000 | |
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| Major Pentagon Acquisitions Programs, August 1999 | |
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| Box | |
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| Summary of Key Technological Assumptions | |
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| Figures | |
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| Reflectivity of U.S. and Soviet Camouflage and Healthy Green Vegetation | |
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| Evolution of Computing Power | |
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| Projected Advances in Key Military Technologies, 2000-20 | |
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| Aircraft Speed since World War II | |
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| The Benefits of Stealth | |
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| Theater Missile Defense Architecture | |
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| Historical Army Dispersion Patterns | |
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| International Distribution of Military Spending, Selected Countries, 1998 | |
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| U.S. Defense Procurement Spending, 1945-2003 | |
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| U.S. National Defense Spending, 1962-2004 | |
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| U.S. Defense Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Spending, 1945-2005 | |
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| U.S. Department of Defense Basic Research Budget, 1972-2000 | |
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| U.S. Department of Defense Applied Research Budget, 1972-2000 | |
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| Quality of Fighter Aircraft, 1995, 2005, and 2015 | |