De la reformă la transformare militară
FROM MILITARY REFORM TO TRANSFORMATION

Summary/Abstract: An important preoccupation of many Romanian and foreign researchers is constituted by the conceptualization of the changes that occur constantly in the field of military organization and of the configuration, dimensions and characteristics of war. This article analyses succinctly the main concepts from the specialty literature – “military reform”, “military revolution”, “military technical revolution”, “revolution in military affairs”, “revolution in the attitudes towards the military”, “military transformation” etc. The analysis is founded not only on the historic perspectives on these concepts but also on an incursion in the contemporary debates. The conclusion is that the mutations in the military organization, in the armed conflict configuration, in the relations between the army and the society have become increasingly rapid and profound. This fact makes it indispensable for the theoretical investigation to follow the same trend in order to succeed, as much as possible, in identifying the major lines of evolution and, why not, in achieving an anticipatory character.

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