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Revolutionary thinking
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| 13 September 2002 |
By Nick Cook with Kim Burger, Luke Hill, Ian Kemp, Andrew Koch and Michael Sirak
The nature of warfare changed forever on 11 September 2001. For a decade, commentators, analysts and military observers have been talking about a new defence 'paradigm' and the 'revolution in military affairs', but only then, when airliners were used as weapons of mass destruction, did the revolution and the paradigm take flight and a new 'warform' mobilise.
Gen John Jumper, USAF Chief of Staff, has called it "a whole new realm of thinking" and illustrates this new thinking with examples from Afghanistan, for example how special operations forces on horseback were punching in their target co-ordinates on laptops.
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