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Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military

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Description for Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military Paperback. Editor(s): Art, Robert J.; Jervis, Robert; Stephen, Walter. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPQB; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Series
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Condition
New
Weight
428g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801481963
SKU
V9780801481963
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About Stephen Peter Rosen
Stephen Peter Rosen is Harvard College Professor and Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies and Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military from Cornell.

Reviews for Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military
What makes for innovations in war-making? The answers of this careful study, based primarily on American military experiences in the twentieth century, run refreshingly against intuition: innovation seems easier in peacetime than war, for the fog of the latter covers all; it is no harder during periods of budgetary austerity than in flusher times; it is neither much connected to ... Read more

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