Military Transformation

Author : Peter Dombrowski,Eugene Gholz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231509657

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Buying Military Transformation by Peter Dombrowski,Eugene Gholz Pdf

In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration that will enable the new military format. Dombrowski and Gholz's analysis integrates the political relationship between the defense industry and Congress, the bureaucratic relationship between the firms and the military services, and the technical capabilities of different types of businesses. Many government officials and analysts believe that only entrepreneurial start-up firms or leaders in commercial information technology markets can produce the new, network-oriented military equipment. But Dombrowski and Gholz find that the existing defense industry will be best able to lead military-technology development, even for equipment modeled on the civilian Internet. The U.S. government is already spending billions of dollars each year on its "military transformation" program-money that could be easily misdirected and wasted if policymakers spend it on the wrong projects or work with the wrong firms. In addition to this practical implication, Buying Military Transformation offers key lessons for the theory of "Revolutions in Military Affairs." A series of military analysts have argued that major social and economic changes, like the shift from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age, inherently force related changes in the military. Buying Military Transformation undermines this technologically determinist claim: commercial innovation does not directly determine military innovation; instead, political leadership and military organizations choose the trajectory of defense investment. Militaries should invest in new technology in response to strategic threats and military leaders' professional judgments about the equipment needed to improve military effectiveness. Commercial technological progress by itself does not generate an imperative for military transformation. Clear, cogent, and engaging, Buying Military Transformation is essential reading for journalists, legislators, policymakers, and scholars.

Author : Bernard Loo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134103423

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Military Transformation and Strategy by Bernard Loo Pdf

This book explores the idea of arevolution in military affairs (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states.The strategic studies literature on the RMA tends to be American-centric and directed towards the strategic problems of the US military. This volume seeks to fill t

Author : Elinor Sloan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781573569897

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Military Transformation and Modern Warfare by Elinor Sloan Pdf

Military transformation can be understood as comprising three overlapping and sometimes competing layers—the conventional-force dominated revolution in military affairs, a more recent irregular warfare emphasis, and a wider dimension including homeland defense, space and nuclear policy. The Western world is currently focusing its attention on transformation's middle layer, while China and Russia are focusing on the RMA and transformation's wider aspects. This dynamic indicates the United States and its allies should continue to prepare for the full range of conflicts. This book establishes the meaning of military transformation, assesses the manner in which certain countries are transforming their military forces, discusses the relevancy of transformation efforts to modern conflict and, in drawing out the key areas of emphasis on the part of various countries, provides a window on the future global security environment. It is divided into seven chapters, plus a conclusion. The first chapter focuses on the meaning of military transformation, establishing a framework through which national militaries can be examined. This comprises transformation's revolution in military affairs components, its newer special operations forces, counterinsurgency, and stabilization and reconstruction aspects, and its wider homeland defense, space and deterrence dimensions. The book devotes two chapters to the United States and one each to China, Russia, and NATO. It also has a chapter that looks individually at each of Australia, Britain, Canada, France and Germany. An assessment of the relevancy of force transformation to modern warfare is integrated into the discussion of what transformation means, how the United States is responding, and the concluding chapter. The book contains a biographical sketch of Andrew Marshall, Andrew Krepinevich, William Owens, Arthur Cebrowski, Donald Rumsfeld, and Thomas Barnett, all of whom have been involved in some aspect of military transformation.

Author : Mark D. Mandeles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313083662

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Military Transformation Past and Present by Mark D. Mandeles Pdf

Transformation has become a buzz word in today's military, but what are its historical precursors—those large scale changes that were once called Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA)? Who has gotten it right, and who has not? The Department of Defense must learn from history. Most studies of innovation focus on the actions, choices, and problems faced by individuals in a particular organization. Few place these individuals and organizations within the complex context where they operate. Yet, it is this very context that is a powerful determinant of how actions are conceived, examined, and implemented, and of how errors are identified and corrected. The historical cases that Mandeles examines reveal how different military services organized to learn, accumulate, and retrieve knowledge; and how their particular organization affected everything from the equipment they acquired to the quality of doctrine and concepts used in combat. In cases where more than one community of experts was responsible for weighing in on decisionmaking, the service benefited from enhanced application of evidence, sound inference, and logic. These cases demonstrate that, for senior leadership, participating in such a system should be a strategic and deliberate choice. In each of the cases featured in this book, no such deliberate choice was made. The interwar U.S. Navy (USN) aviation community and the U.S. Marine Corps amphibious operation community were lucky that, in a time of rapid technological advance and strategic risk, their decisions in framing and solving technological and operational problems were made within a functioning multi-organizational system. The Army Air Corps and the Royal Marines were unfortunate, with corresponding results. It is characteristic of 20th-century military history that no senior civilian or military leader suggested a policy to handle overlapping responsibilities by multiple departments. Today's policymakers have not learned this lesson. In the present time, while a great deal of thought is devoted to proper organizational design and the numbers of persons required to perform necessary functions, there is still no overarching framework guiding these designs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428937475

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Military transformation clear leadership, accountability, and management tools are needed to enhance DOD's efforts to transform military capabilities : report to congressional committees. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clifford J Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429975899

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The Military Revolution Debate by Clifford J Rogers Pdf

This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.

Author : Simon Frankel Pratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316515174

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Normative Transformation and the War on Terrorism by Simon Frankel Pratt Pdf

Sociological analysis of the transformation of prohibitions on assassination, torture, and mercenaries as components of the US War on Terror.

Author : Frederick Kagan
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594032042

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Finding the Target by Frederick Kagan Pdf

A military historian describes three basic transformations that have taken place within the U.S. military since the Vietnam War, including a move to an all-volunteer force, the emergence of stealth technology, and the application of information technology after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Author : Theo Farrell,Terriff Terry,Osinga Frans
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804781800

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A Transformation Gap? by Theo Farrell,Terriff Terry,Osinga Frans Pdf

NATO member states are all undergoing some form of military transformation. Despite a shared vision, transformation has been primarily a US-led process centered on the exploitation of new information technologies in combination with new concepts for "networked organizations" and "effects-based operations." Simply put, European states have been unable to match the level of US investment in new military technologies, leading to the identification of a growing "transformation gap" between the US and the European allies. This book assesses the extent and trajectory of military transformation across a range of European NATO member states, setting their transformation progress against that of the US, and examining the complex mix of factors driving military transformation in each country. It reveals not only the nature and extent of the transatlantic gap, but also identifies an enormous variation in the extent and pace of transformation among the European allies, suggesting both technological and operational gaps within Europe.

Author : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clichés
ISBN : IND:30000139802031

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Challenging Transformation's Clichés by Antulio Joseph Echevarria Pdf

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Peace-building
ISBN : UOM:39015062425239

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Transformation and Strategic Surprise by Colin S. Gray Pdf

The current process of military transformation will enable the Armed Forces to do better what they already do superbly well. It is important to excel at decisive maneuver and in the application of precise, yet overwhelming firepower. But those attributes, though key in warfare against regular enemies, tend to be less valuable in conflict with irregulars. In war after war, the United States has been surprised by the poor political reward it has earned for its military effort. The IT-led transformation will do nothing to help correct the persisting American difficulty in functioning strategically and politically in its conduct of war. The author develops a cumulative seven-point argument.

Author : Raymond A. Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : UCBK:C105174750

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Transformation Under Fire by Raymond A. Kimball Pdf

The Bolshevik leaders who built the Red Army from the shattered remnants of the Imperial Russian Army after World War I were far more innovative and pragmatic than usually believed. These men had a clear vision of what they needed from their armed forces and sustained that vision through years of sustained combat. Many of their efforts were squandered, however, when they attacked an enemy that was far different from the forces they had built their Army against. In the end, a force that had triumphed against incredible odds to dominate a substantial portion of the earth's landmass was thrown back and humiliated by a second-rate power. This case study illuminates the dangers inherent in simultaneously conducting sustained combat operations and military transformation. Ominously, many of these same trends are currently manifesting themselves in American military transformation efforts.

Author : you Ji
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509503346

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China's Military Transformation by you Ji Pdf

China's military transformation is one of the major geo-strategic developments of the 21st Century. Billions of dollars are being spent modernizing The People's Liberation Army (PLA) as China seeks to upgrade and expand its military capabilities to rival the US. In this cutting-edge analysis, You Ji, a leading expert on China's military affairs, explores the changes taking places within the PLA today, covering its ground, aerospace and maritime forces, its ability to meet asymmetric threats, and the growing role played by the People's Armed Police in quelling dissent in China. He shows how these transformations in personnel, technology and strategic goals are slowly driving a wedge between China's two most powerful institutions. Until recently, relations between the CCP and PLA were harmonious, but as the PLA becomes increasingly professionalized and autonomous so its unconditional loyalty to the ruling Party may weaken. The changing relationship between the CCP and PLA, he argues, is likely to have profound implications for China's own political development and the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. Comprehensive and incisive, this timely book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the nature and consequences of China's military rise.

Author : Andrew Futter,Jeffrey Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137513762

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Reassessing the Revolution in Military Affairs by Andrew Futter,Jeffrey Collins Pdf

A generation after the First Gulf War, and in the wake of a decade of counterinsurgency operations and irregular warfare, this book explores how the concept of the Revolution in Military Affairs continues to shape the way modern militaries across the globe think about, plan and fight wars.

Author : Allan English,Richard Gimblett,Howard Coombs
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773560505

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Networked Operations and Transformation by Allan English,Richard Gimblett,Howard Coombs Pdf

The authors consider various approaches to networked operations that are based on the physical environment and cultural context in which armed forces operate. They conclude that a "one size fits all" approach to command and control for networked operations may not be the most effective and suggest a more human-centric approach than the primarily technology-centred model used by the U.S. military.