1. A representative sample of the literature on the revolution in military affairs includes E.H. Arnett, ‘Welcome to Hyperwar’, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 48, no. 7 (1992), pp. 14–21; J. Arquilla and D. Ronfeldt, ‘Cyberwar is Coming!’, Comparative Strategy, vol. 12, no. 2 (1993); A. D. Campden (ed.), The First Information War (Fairfax, VA, 1992); D. Gouré, ‘Is there a Military-Technical Revolution in America’s Future?’, The Washington Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4 (1993), pp. 175–92; T.A. Keaney and E.A. Cohen, Gulf War Air Power Survey: Summary Report (Washington, DC, 1993); E. A. Cohen, ‘A Revolution in Warfare’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 75, no. 2 (1996); F. Kendall, ‘Exploiting the MTR’, Strategic Review, vol. 20, no. 2 (1992); M. J. Mazarr et al., The Military Technical Revolution: A Structural Framework (Washington, DC, 1993); L.B. Ederington and M.J. Mazarr, Turning Point: The Gulf War and US Military Strategy (Boulder, CO, 1994); G. Stix, ‘Fighting Future Wars’, Scientific American, vol. 273, no. 6 (1995); M. Libicki, ‘What is Information Warfare?’, National Defense University ACIS Paper 3 (1995); S.E. Johnson and M.C. Libicki (eds), Dominant Battlespace Knowledge: The Winning Edge (Washington, DC, 1995); R.J. Dunn III, From Gettysburg to the Gulf and Beyond: Coping with Revolutionary Technological Change in Land Warfare (Washington, DC, 1992); D. Shukman, Tomorrow’s War: The Threat of High-Technology Weapons (New York, 1996); M. DeLanda, War in the Age of the Intelligent Machine (New York, 1991).
2. Some of the central contributions to this body of sociological thought include M. Shaw and C. Creighton, ‘Introduction’, in Creighton and Shaw (eds), The Sociology of War and Peace (London, 1987); M. Shaw, Dialectics of War: an Essay in the Social Theory of War and Peace (London, 1988); M. Shaw (ed.), War State and Society (London, 1984); and A. Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (Cambridge, 1985).
3. Keith Krause, Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade (Cambridge, 1992), p. 22.
4. The most thoroughly researched military revolution is the one that took place between 1560 and 1660. See, inter alia, M. Roberts, The Military Revolution, 1560–1660 (Belfast, 1956); G. Parker, ‘The‘Military Revolution’, 1560–1660 — a Myth?’, Journal of Modern History, vol. 48 (1976), pp. 195–214; G. Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800 (Cambridge, 1988); B. Hall and K. DeVries, ‘Essay Review — the ‘Military Revolution’, Revisited’, Technology and Culture, vol. 31 (1990), pp. 500–7; S. Adams, ‘Tactics or Politics? “The Military Revolution”, and the Hapsburg Hegemony, 1525–1648’, in John A. Lynn (ed.), Instruments, Ideas, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445–1871 (Chicago, IL, 1990), pp. 28–52; J. Black, A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society, 1550–1800 (London, 1991); B. Downing, The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe (Princeton, NJ, 1992); B.D. Porter, War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics (Toronto, 1994), pp. 63–104.
5. There is little agreement about the periodisation of warfare. For an alternative list see A.F. Krepinevich, ‘Cavalry to Computer: The Pattern of Military Revolutions’, National Interest (1994).