Revolution of Weaponry SystemGhita Yoshanti 0706291281Riris Dwi Adianti 0706291382Tangguh 0706291426

• Hi-tech gadgetary

• Professional military

• Lack of institutionalization of RMA

U.S.

• Badly trained soldier

• Advanced military technology, still not better than the U.S.’s

• Miscalculation towards the U.S.

Iraq • Battles won by the U.S.,managing to drive out Iraq from Kuwait

• Saddam Hussein had yet to be defeated

Result

GBU-31: Mk84 bomb fitted with JDAM

RQ-1 / MQ-1 Predator

RQ-4 Global Hawk

Al Qaeda waged netwar

U.S. response to al Qaeda’s rise was weak and ineffectual: World had changed—and U.S. had not yet changed sufficiently

Most important advance in U.S. capabilities: JDAM UAVs (RQ-1A Predator & RQ-4 Global Hawk) Siprnet

In the past, civilian casualties were regarded as routine; now those were a major scandal Growth of precision-guided munitions

Most important offer from U.S.: air power Victory still required close cooperation of air & ground action Heavy air strikes defeated Taliban

First air strike: a failure Best weaponry in the world was not much use without adequate intelligence

U.S. forces had grown since Desert Storm: technology, doctrine & organization Use of information technology had improved; Decision-making far more quickly, Transmission of

short messages became useful, Locating enemies far easier Army-marine coordination & “jointness”

Battle won, favorable political outcome couldn’t be achieved Fall of Saddam’s police state disintegration of law & order Failure to stop fleeing Baathists dissipating to communities Shortfall of coalition troops forces: fast conventional attack, failed reconstruction effort No planning for Phase IV—stability operations after Saddam’s fall Army of insurgents: Baathists and other Sunni Arabs with “classic guerilla-type campaign” U.S. soldiers not trained for “nation-building” and “peacekeeping”

U.S. troops facing dead end Isolated “inside the wire”—the Green Zone Threat of IEDs Lack of “up-armored” Humvees, supplies, and small equipments like the Interceptor system U.S. soldiers being a hierarchy fighting the insurgents being a network Frustrated battling a vicious enemy U.S. forces abused

4th generation war Political struggle: Ideological war, State vs. non-state, Private security /

military company Operation: asymmetric war; Political interaction, Bureaucratic

interaction, Media’s war Tactical; People: win heart and mind of the supporting mass, Protracted

war / long war

World had changed Cold War: bipolar world with visible & predictable threats Post-Cold War: threats from multiple sources, unpredictable

Emergence of netwar by networked, decentralized organization Modern communications & transportation technology: In the past,

terrorists abroad had little ability to inflict damage far from home; now they have