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technology and revolutionary changes in military affairs  

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  • World War II to Present As a seismic shift in the international security environment commenced in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, military affairs specialists began to speculate about a revolutionary transformation in the American conduct of warfare. The very same information technologies that have opened up closed societies and altered the global economy were presumed to be the principal drivers of revolutionary changes in modern warfare. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Technology and Revolutionary Changes in Military Affairs]

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