Fra Atena e Marte: Un'analisi della cultura strategico-militare a partire dal dibattito sulla Revolution in Military Affairs [Between Athena and Mars. An analysis of the military strategic culture starting from the revolution in military affairs debate]

In the decades around the turning point of the new millennium, the military-strategic debate was focused on the high concept of Revolution in Military affairs (Rma). For some analysts, the technological innovation and the changes in the diplomatic-strategic context would produce a revolutionary transformation of war and its conduct, while other analysts consider those changes only incremental and the emphasis on the changes would just aim at promoting interests of the high-tech military-industrial complex. The article does not want to provide an exhaustive account of the Rma discussions. Otherwise, the main positions emerged from the debate - summarized as «modernists», «militarists», «classicists» - are analysed with the purpose of identifying structural elements that characterize the field of military-strategical culture.

L'articolo si propone non di fornire una ricostruzione della vicenda della Rmi quanto un analisi delle differenti posizioni emerse in quel dibattito - distinguendo fra "militaristi", "modernisti" e "classicisti" - con l'obiettivo di identificare gli elementi strutturali che caratterizzano il campo della cultura strategico militare