"...with all their importance,
technologies are only able to foster change in tandem with other components.
Their emergence & introduction facilitates the development of relevant skills and capabilities which in turn stimulates the emergence of new procedures to harness their potential.

Finally, implementing a specific procedure gradually creates a new situation that forms a certain perception of the new threat – the final element in the cyclical evolution of war.

As soon as this threat is perceived, a technology is conceived to respond to it.

From a political & military standpoint, threat perception is an important force determining
what technologies, ideas, & procedures are needed to counter threats.

These, in turn, create a new perception of threats thereby perpetuating the evolution of military practices."