Dr. David R. Mets's "The Long Search for a Surgical Strike:
Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs" is a
broad, though-provoking examination of the relationship between the
advancement in conventional weapons guidance technology and the
"revolution in military affairs" (RMA). He defines and RMA as a
rapid change in military technology, doctrine, and organization
leading to a sweeping new way that wars are fought. Dr. Mets then
considers whether the improvement in conventional air weapons
accuracy since World War II is the foundation, the main pillar, one
of the principal supports, or is irrelevant to the RMA - which is
said to be afoot. Clearly, the air theorists of the 1920s were
fully persuaded that indeed a revolution was afoot. Equally
clearly, the visions of Guilio Douhet, William "Billy" Mitchell,
and the Air Corps Tactical School were no more than partially
fulfilled in World War II. Dr. Mets also explores the degree to
which the shortcomings of aerial weapons were responsible for the
denial of their visions and the degree to which those inadequacies
were overcome in the conflicts that followed. He closes with an
estimate as to whether their dreams of a revolution are about to be
fulfilled.
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