The Culture of Military Innovation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of Military Innovation write by Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky. This book was released on 2010-01-27. The Culture of Military Innovation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in Russia, the US, and Israel indicates the opposite. The US developed technology and weaponry for about a decade without reconceptualizing the existing paradigm about the nature of warfare. Soviet 'new theory of victory' represented a conceptualization which chronologically preceded technological procurement. Israel was the first to utilize the weaponry on the battlefield, but was the last to develop a conceptual framework that acknowledged its revolutionary implications. Utilizing primary sources that had previously been completely inaccessible, and borrowing methods of analysis from political science, history, anthropology, and cognitive psychology, this book suggests a cultural explanation for this puzzling transformation in warfare. The Culture of Military Innovation offers a systematic, thorough, and unique analytical approach that may well be applicable in other perplexing strategic situations. Though framed in the context of specific historical experience, the insights of this book reveal important implications related to conventional, subconventional, and nonconventional security issues. It is therefore an ideal reference work for practitioners, scholars, teachers, and students of security studies.
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Military Innovation in the Interwar Period write by Williamson R. Murray. This book was released on 1998-08-13. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Culture of Military Organizations
The Culture of Military Organizations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of Military Organizations write by Peter R. Mansoor. This book was released on 2019-10-17. The Culture of Military Organizations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines how military culture forms and changes, as well as its impact on the effectiveness of military organizations.
Winning the Next War
Winning the Next War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winning the Next War write by Stephen Peter Rosen. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Winning the Next War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the international strategic situation. He also discusses the changing relationship between the civilian innovator and the military bureaucrat. In peacetime, Rosen finds, innovation has been the product of analysis and the politics of military promotion, in a process that has slowly but successfully built military capabilities critical to American military success. In wartime, by contrast, innovation has been constrained by the fog of war and the urgency of combat needs. Rosen draws his principal evidence from U.S. military policy between 1905 and 1960, though he also discusses the British army's experience with the battle tank during World War I.
Military Innovation in Small States
Military Innovation in Small States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Military Innovation in Small States write by Michael Raska. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Military Innovation in Small States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the global diffusion of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its impact on military innovation trajectories in small states. Although the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) concept has enjoyed significant academic attention, the varying paths and patterns of military innovation in divergent strategic settings have been overlooked. This book seeks to rectify this gap by addressing the broad puzzle of how the global diffusion of RMA-oriented military innovation – the process of international transmission, communication, and interaction of RMA-related military concepts, organizations, and technologies - has shaped the paths, patterns, and scope of military innovation of selected small states. In a reverse mode, how have selected small states influenced the conceptualization and transmission of the RMA theory, processes, and debate? Using Israel, Singapore and South Korea as case studies, this book argues that RMA-oriented military innovation paths in small states indicate predominantly evolutionary trajectory, albeit with a varying patterns resulting from the confluence of three sets of variables: (1) the level of strategic, organizational, and operational adaptability in responding to shifts in the geostrategic and regional security environment; (2) the ability to identify, anticipate, exploit, and sustain niche military innovation – select conceptual, organizational, and technological innovation intended to enhance the military’s ability to prepare for, fight, and win wars, and (3) strategic culture. While the book represents relevant empirical cases for testing the validity of the RMA diffusion hypotheses, from a policy-oriented perspective, this book argues that these case studies offer lessons learned in coping with the security and defence management challenges posed by military innovation in general. This book will be of much interest for students of military innovation, strategic studies, defence studies, Asian politics, Middle Eastern politics and security studies in general.
