Abstract
Despite its typical association with great powers and Middle Eastern politics, the RMA is a global phenomenon with clear manifestations in the Americas. As we observed in Chapter 1, the RMA is very much a work in progress, though its features are becoming clearer. This rupture has entailed asymmetric conflict, complexity, new forms of organization, the use of ultra-surveillance, a variety of themes linked to a globalized political economy, as well as epistemological considerations. This chapter will address how various elements of the RMA have worked together in a synergetic fashion to explain strategic change in Colombia and Mexico.
Look not for this year’s birds in last year’s nest.1 Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote
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Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 1115.
See Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Boston: Shambhala, 1991), p. 49.
Ralph Sawyer, ed., The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China (Boulder, CO: West-view, 1993).
Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991), p. 56.
Hannah Arendt, On Violence (New York: Harvest, 1970), p. 44.
Interview by author with Daniela Oyague, Trade Commissioner, Canadian Embassy, Caracas, 8 August 2006.
See James Rochlin, Vanguard Revolutionaries in Latin America: Peru, Colombia and Mexico (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2003).
Interview by author with Juan Ramon Rios, Director, Secretario General, USO, Bogotá, 14 July 2006.
Interview by author with Tarsicio Mora Fodoy, Fiscal de Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia, Bogotá, 12 July 2006.
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Vintage, 1994), p. 50.
For example, Athens’ Pericles admits that Athens’ colonial empire is based on tyranny and cites this as a source of strategic worry (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, p. 126). In another of many examples, Thucydides notes that “so general was the indignation felt against Athens, whether by those who wishe [d] to escape from her empire, or those who were apprehensive of being absorbed by it” (pp. 93–96). See Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War, ed. Robert Strassler (New York: Free Press, 1996).
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Rochlin, J.F. (2007). Conclusion. In: Social Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609662_8
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