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The Culture of Military Innovation: The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel

The Culture of Military Innovation: The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:AdamskyPublish date:2010-01-27Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford Security StudiesISBN-13:9780804769525ISBN-10:804769524UPC:9780804769525Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Military Science, Security (National & International), Political FreedomSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCP0MFQ691

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford Security StudiesISBN-13:9780804769525ISBN-10:804769524UPC:9780804769525Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Military Science, Security (National & International), Political FreedomSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCP0MFQ691
Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is a fellow at the National Security Studies Program at Harvard University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, and at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies.
Publisher: Stanford Security Studies

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