Abstract:

This paper argues that with the progressive complexity of emerging ‘hybrid’ security challenges, both Israel and South Korea have been rethinking their strategic paradigms over the past two decades, while devising innovative operational concepts that would allow greater flexibility, adaptability, and autonomy under conditions of strategic uncertainty.  In doing so, both Israel and South Korea have studied, benchmarked, and debated selected RMA-related concepts, while attempting to leverage and exploit information technologies in their use of force. Given their varying levels of strategic and operational adaptability, however, Israeli and South Korean RMA trajectories show considerable variation in the pace, direction, scope, and character of their diffusion, adaptation, and innovation.

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