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Warfighting and disruptive technologies : disguising innovation /

Occasionally, during times of peace, military forces achieve major warfighting innovations. Terry Pierce terms these developments 'disruptive innovations' and shows how senior leaders have often disguised them in order to ensure their innovations survived. He shows how more common innovati...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pierce, Terry C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Frank Cass, 2004.
Series:Cass series--strategy and history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Explaining disruptive innovations
  • US Marine Corps innovation: the development of amphibious warfare
  • Post-World War II Marine Corps disruptive innovations: (I) helicopter warfare
  • Post-World War II Marine Corps disruptive innovations: (II) MAGTF warfare, combined arms operations
  • US Marine Corps inchoate disruptive innovation: maneuver warfare
  • US Marine Corps sustaining innovations and summary of disruptive Marine Corps cases
  • US Navy sustaining innovation: continuous aim gunfire
  • US Navy disruptive innovation: carrier warfare
  • Disruptive innovation: Japanese carrier warfare
  • US Navy disruptive innovation: CWC, naval combined arms warfare
  • US Navy sustaining innovation: carrier battle group concept
  • US Navy disruptive innovation, aborted: Project 60, defensive sea control warfare
  • US Navy disruptive innovation: maritime action groups, surface land attack warfare
  • US Navy disruptive innovation: tactical collaborative network and a summary of disruptive Navy cases
  • Conclusion.