RASKA Michael <br/><br/>
The sixth RMA wave:  disruption in Military Affairs?/ 
Michael Raska 
 -  2021 
<br/><br/> The Revolution in Military Affairs, its concepts, processes, and debates, have evolved in five 'IT-RMA waves' since the 1980s. None of them, however, have fully achieved their intended outcomes as their ambitious premises have exceeded available technologies, budgetary resources, and operational capabilities of a given era. This paper argues that a new 'artificial intelligence-driven RMA' wave differs in the political, strategic, technological, and operational diffusion paths and patterns. While the AI-RMA may affect select countries and regions disproportionately, its technological advances coupled with an ongoing strategic competition is sufficiently broad to stipulate significant military changes across geopolitical lines. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS--MILITARY INNOVATION--FUTURE WARFARE--EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES--DISRUPTIVE DEFENCE INNOVATION--STRATEGIC COMPETITION--EAST ASIA