The Third Wave: What the Tofflers Never Told You

Abstract

Although much of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) debate centers on the notion that the Information Age represents a Third Wave paradigm shift, the Information Age is only one of the components of the Third Wave. The Third Wave is marked not by a paradigm shift, but the utter lack of a paradigm. Discussions about the RMA (or, as it is increasingly being called, Revolution in Security Affairs, as some call it) should reflect the specific conditions existing in the Third Wave, in this regard, the Tofflers' analysis is incomplete.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA394324

Entities

People

  • Thomas J. Czerwinski

Organizations

  • National Defense University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Economic Systems
  • Economics
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Information Systems
  • International Relations
  • Language
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Political Theory
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Revolutions
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • War Games

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