ABSTRACT
Claims to the establishment of revolutionary ideas are difficult to verify in the present: only the passage of time can truly confirm the impact an idea will have on history. For example, immediately after the Second World War, nuclear weapons were widely believed to have revolutionised war. Nevertheless, their role in warfare has to date been latent, rather than direct. Secondly, as Colin Gray points out, the concept of a 'revolution in military affairs' is essentially an interpretation placed on the unfolding of events, as opposed to an objectively verifiable occurrence with a time and place attached to it.2
