Warfighting and Disruptive Technologies: Disguising Innovation

✍ Scribed by Terry Pierce

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: Strategy and History
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Occasionally, during times of peace, military forcesВ achieve major warfighting innovations. Terry PierceВ terms these developmentsВ 'disruptive innovations' and shows how senior leaders haveВ often disguised them in order to ensure their innovations survived. He shows how more common innovations however, have been those of integrating new technologies to help perform existing missions better and not change them radically. The author calls these 'sustaining innovations'. The recent innovation history suggests two interesting questions. First, how can senior military leaders achieve a disruptive innovation when they are heavily engaged around the world and they are managing sustaining innovations? Second, what have been the external sources of disruptive (and sustaining) innovations? This book is essential reading for professionals and students interested in national security, military history and strategic issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 8
Series editor's preface......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 18
Explaining disruptive innovations......Page 36
US Marine Corps innovation: the development of amphibious warfare......Page 68
Post-World War II Marine Corps disruptive innovations: (I) helicopter warfare......Page 87
Post-World War II Marine Corps disruptive innovations: (II) MAGTF warfare combined arms operations......Page 96
US Marine Corps inchoate disruptive innovation: maneuver warfare......Page 102
US Marine Corps sustaining innovations and summary of disruptive Marine Corps cases......Page 121
US Navy sustaining innovation: continuous aim gunfire......Page 133
US Navy disruptive innovation: carrier warfare......Page 138
Disruptive innovation: Japanese carrier warfare......Page 149
US Navy disruptive innovation: CWC naval combined arms warfare......Page 162
US Navy sustaining innovation: carrier battle group concept......Page 169
US Navy disruptive innovation aborted: Project 60 defensive sea control warfare......Page 172
US Navy disruptive innovation: maritime action groups surface land attack warfare......Page 181
US Navy disruptive innovation: tactical collaborative network and a summary of disruptive Navy cases......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 209
Notes......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 254
Index......Page 266