Contemporary Military Innovation

Author : Dima Adamsky,Kjell Inge Bjerga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415523363

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Contemporary Military Innovation by Dima Adamsky,Kjell Inge Bjerga Pdf

This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption. The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character of war. Known as the Information-Technology Revolution in Military Affairs (IT-RMA), this innovation served as an intellectual foundation for the US defence transformation from the 1990s onwards. Since the mid-1990s, professional ideas generated within the American defence milieu have been further disseminated to military communities across the globe, with huge impact on the conduct of warfare. With chapters written by leading scholars in this field, this work sheds light on RMAs in general and the IT-RMA in the US, in particular. The authors analyse how military practice and doctrines were developed on the basis of the IT-RMA ideas, how they were disseminated, and the implications of them in several countries and conflicts around the world. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, defence studies, war and technology, and security studies in general.

Author : Dima Adamsky,Kjell Inge Inge Bjerga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : OCLC:794904378

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Contemporary Military Innovation by Dima Adamsky,Kjell Inge Inge Bjerga Pdf

Author : Stephen Peter Rosen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501732317

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Winning the Next War by Stephen Peter Rosen Pdf

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.

Author : Dima Adamsky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804773805

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The Culture of Military Innovation by Dima Adamsky Pdf

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.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815798946

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Technological Change and the Future of Warfare by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

In light of the spectacular performance of American high-technology weapons in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, as well as the phenomenal pace of innovation in the modern computer industry, many defense analysts have posited that we are on the threshold of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). The issue has more than semantic importance. Many RMA proponents have begun to argue for major changes in Pentagon budgetary priorities and even in American foreign policy more generally to free up resources to pursue a transformed U.S. military—and to make sure that other countries do not take advantage of the purported RMA before we do. This book takes a more measured perspective. Beginning with a survey of various types of defense technologies, it argues that while important developments are indeed under way, most impressively in electronics and computer systems, the overall thrust of contemporary military innovation is probably not of a revolutionary magnitude. Some reorientation of U.S. defense dollars is appropriate, largely to improve homeland defense and to take advantage of the promise of modern electronics systems and precision-guided munitions. But radical shifts in U.S. security policy and Pentagon budget priorities appear unwarranted—especially if those shifts would come at the expense of American military engagement in overseas defense missions from Korea to Iraq to Bosnia.

Author : Marcus Schulzke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472220410

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Twenty-First Century Military Innovation by Marcus Schulzke Pdf

Contemporary war is as much a quest for decisive technological, organizational, and doctrinal superiority before the fighting starts as it is an effort to destroy enemy militaries during battle. Armed forces that are not actively fighting are instead actively reengineering themselves for success in the next fight and imagining what that next fight may look like. Twenty-First Century Military Innovation outlines the most theoretically important themes in contemporary warfare, especially as these appear in distinctive innovations that signal changes in states’ warfighting capacities and their political goals. Marcus Schulzke examines eight case studies that illustrate the overall direction of military innovation and important underlying themes. He devotes three chapters to new weapons technologies (drones, cyberweapons, and nonlethal weapons), two chapters to changes in the composition of state military forces (private military contractors and special operations forces), and three chapters to strategic and tactical changes (targeted killing, population-centric counterinsurgency, and degradation). Each case study includes an accessible introduction to the topic area, an overview of the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding that topic, and the most important theoretical implications. An engaging overview of the themes that emerge with military innovation, this book will also attract readers interested in particular topic areas.

Author : Michael Raska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317661290

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Military Innovation in Small States by Michael Raska Pdf

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.

Author : Harvey Sapolsky,Benjamin Friedman,Brendan Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135968687

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US Military Innovation Since the Cold War by Harvey Sapolsky,Benjamin Friedman,Brendan Green Pdf

explains how the US military transformation failed in the post-Cold war era Harvey Sapolsky is a leading defence scholar in the US will be of interest to students of strategic studies, defence studies, military studies, US politics and security studies in general

Author : Emily O. Goldman,Leslie C. Eliason
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804745358

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The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas by Emily O. Goldman,Leslie C. Eliason Pdf

Antologi. Sikkerhedspolitiske forskere giver deres vurdering af følgerne af informationsalderens opgør med hidtidig kendt våbenteknologi og doktriner i forbindelse med den globale spredning af know-how på området.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521479584

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The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of military practice in the West constituted a 'military revolution' which gave Westerners an insurmountable advantage over the peoples of other continents. This edition incorporates new material, including a substantial 'Afterword' which summarises the debate which developed after the book's first publication.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Strategy
ISBN : UCR:31210014634792

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Weapons for Strategic Effect by Colin S. Gray Pdf

Author : Michael Horowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : 0691143951

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The Diffusion of Military Power by Michael Horowitz Pdf

The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. Michael Horowitz argues that a state or actor wishing to adopt a military innovation must possess both the financial resources to buy or build the technology and the internal organizational capacity to accommodate any necessary changes in recruiting, training, or operations. How countries react to new innovations--and to other actors that do or don't adopt them--has profound implications for the global order and the likelihood of war. Horowitz looks at some of the most important military innovations throughout history, including the advent of the all-big-gun steel battleship, the development of aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons, and the use of suicide terror by nonstate actors. He shows how expensive innovations can favor wealthier, more powerful countries, but also how those same states often stumble when facing organizationally complicated innovations. Innovations requiring major upheavals in doctrine and organization can disadvantage the wealthiest states due to their bureaucratic inflexibility and weight the balance of power toward smaller and more nimble actors, making conflict more likely. This book provides vital insights into military innovations and their impact on U.S. foreign policy, warfare, and the distribution of power in the international system.

Author : Williamson R. Murray,Allan R. Millett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521637600

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Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson R. Murray,Allan R. Millett Pdf

A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : Jeffrey Alan Isaacson,Christopher Layne,John Arquilla
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015043409211

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Predicting Military Innovation by Jeffrey Alan Isaacson,Christopher Layne,John Arquilla Pdf

This annotated briefing documents a research effort aimed at understanding and predicting how militaries may improve their battlefield effectiveness.

Author : Barış Ateş
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000834178

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Military Innovation in Türkiye by Barış Ateş Pdf

This book explores Turkish military innovation since the Cold War. The major questions addressed are how Türkiye has been able to innovate, the production of new weapon systems, its philosophical background, how the country overcame bureaucratic and economic obstacles, and how these innovations resonated in military doctrine and organization. Focusing on two main defense industry projects that trigger an overall change in the military doctrine and organization, the text examines the innovative inclinations of the Turkish military realm and reveals the societal, economic and political consequences of military innovation. This book fills a gap in the literature by providing an interdisciplinary and comprehensive overview of Turkish military innovation. Contributors include those involved in and affected by the military innovation process, as well as scholars who monitor the process using primary sources. Military Innovation in Türkiye will appeal to academics, politicians and military professionals interested in understanding the evolution of the Turkish military.