1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451301303321

Autore

Pierce Terry C.

Titolo

Warfighting and disruptive technologies : disguising innovation / / aptain Terry C. Pierce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Frank Cass, , 2004

ISBN

0-429-23040-0

1-135-76932-X

1-280-05183-3

9786610051830

0-203-34155-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Cass series--strategy and history

Disciplina

355

Soggetti

Military art and science - Technological innovations

Strategy - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Series editor's preface; Preface; 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 warfareDisruptive 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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 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 dis

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Record Nr.

UNISA996384735403316

Titolo

The booke of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments [[electronic resource] ] : And other parts of divine service for the use of the Church of Scotland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, M.DC.XXXVII. [1637]

Descrizione fisica

[460] p

Altri autori (Persone)

LaudWilliam <1573-1645.>

Soggetti

Prayers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Edited by William Laud.

At foot of title: Cum privilegio.

Signatures: a-b A-Q R⁶ 2a-2k.

Title page and calendar printed in red and black.

"The psalter, or, Psalmes of David: according to the last translation in King James his time. Pointed as they shall be said .." has separate title page dated 1636. Variant: this title lacks the word "Pointed". Another setting of the Psalter (in STC 16607) has "After the translation set forth by authority in King James his time of blessed memory", and there is no catchword on 2k6v.

Quires A and C-E and leaf 2h3 are in at least two partial or complete published settings. For details see STC. For further printing history see "The Bibliothek" 5 (1967), p. 1-23.



2k7,8 are cancelled in most copies, but 2k6v has catchword: Certaine.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113

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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00204457

Autore

RAK, Michele

Titolo

La parte istorica : storia della filosofia e libertinismo erudito : documenti per una ricerca sulla struttura del genere "storia della filosofia" nella cultura europea dell'età libertina / Michele Rak. Con alcune lezioni storico-politiche di Giuseppe Valletta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Guida, 1971

Descrizione fisica

197 p. ; 21 cm.

Disciplina

109

Soggetti

VALLETTA GIUSEPPE - Istoria filosofica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia