Managing defense transformation : agency, culture and service change / Adam N. Stulberg and Michael D. Salomone ; with Austin G. Long.
Material type: TextPublication details: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (214 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780754686200
- 0754686205
- 1317101774
- 9781317101772
- 1317101766
- 9781317101765
- 9786611099046
- 6611099042
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Reorganization -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
- Strategy -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
- Stratégie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Études de cas
- HISTORY -- Military -- Biological & Chemical Warfare
- Armed Forces -- Reorganization
- Strategy
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 355.30973 22
- UA10 .S735 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
List of figures -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Understanding military transformation -- Explaining military transformation -- Principals, agents and service transformation -- Case studies -- The German Blitzkrieg transformation : rebuilding preeminence from catastrophe -- The U.S. Navy transformed : managing change from sea to air -- The British and armored force : squandering early innovation -- U.S. counterinsurgency in Vietnam : shirking transformation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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This book explicates the conditions under which military organizations have both succeeded and failed at institutionalizing new ideas and forms of warfare. Through comparative analysis of some classic cases, the authors offer a novel explanation for change rooted in managerial strategies for aligning service incentives and norms.
English.
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