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Managing defense transformation : agency, culture and service change /

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 alignin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stulberg, Adam N., 1963-
Otros Autores: Salomone, Michael D., Long, Austin G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.