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Author Stulberg, Adam N

Title Managing Defense Transformation : Agency, Culture and Service Change
Published Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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 aligning service incentives and norms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Strategy -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Armed Forces -- Reorganization
Strategy
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Reorganization -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Subject United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Salomone, Michael D
ISBN 9780754686200
0754686205
128109904X
9781281099044