ABSTRACT

This chapter considers how the US military themselves were rethinking and remaking warfare in the 1990s. After the 1991 Gulf War, new ideas such as the ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ gained ground, whilst there were ongoing developments in information technology including the take-off of the World Wide Web. US Military forces, strategists, and thinkers responded to these by developing new idea of Command and Control Warfare (‘C2W’, ‘C3I’, ‘C4I’), ‘Information War’, ‘Cyberwar’, ‘Information Operations’, ‘Full-Spectrum Dominance’ and ‘Network-Centric Warfare’. These ideas would find political support and be implemented in the military from the end of the decade.