Transformation is a
buzzword
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popularized by
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, businessman, and naval officer who served as United States Secretary of Defense, secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and again ...
referring to a "change of mindset that will allow the
Smilitary to harness the technological advances of the information age to gain a qualitative advantage over any potential foe."
[Boot, M. 2003. ‘‘The New American Way of War.’’ Foreign Affairs]
Currently it is composed of three ideas.
"The three key elements of transformation thus far are knowledge, speed and precision. Knowledge, in the sense of being able to use the technical means at our disposal to seek, to track and to find out what the enemy is all about; speed: strategic speed, the ability to project forces over great distances very, very quickly; and precision is the ability to strike the enemy with sort of surgical strikes to kill the enemy quickly.
Robert Scales Jr., Battle Plan Under Fire, Transcripts
"its key doctrine is 'network-centric warfare,' a strategy that has friendly combatants networked together for a previously unknown degree of fighting effectiveness." fro
Transformation - The creation of a force that is dominant across the full spectrum of military operations - persuasive in peace, decisive in war, preeminent in any form of conflict
See also
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Transformation of the United States Army
The transformation of the United States Army is part of a
United States Army Futures Command#Waypoint 2028 and the Army of 2030, strategy using #Multi-domain operations (MDO), Multi-Domain Operations (MDO).US Arm(2020) AMERICA'S ARMY: READY NOW, ...
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Millennium Challenge 2002
Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02) was a major Military simulation, war game exercise conducted by the United States Armed Forces under United States Joint Forces Command in mid-2002, running from 24 July to 15 August. The exercise involved both l ...
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Revolution in Military Affairs
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Network-centric warfare
Network-centric warfare, also called network-centric operations or net-centric warfare, is a military doctrine or theory of war that aims to translate an information advantage, enabled partly by information technology, into a competitive advantag ...
References
External links
*Colin Robinson
Defining Transformation? Center for Defense Information, Washington DC, June 25, 2002
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Military terminology of the United States
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Donald Rumsfeld