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

• Autore: Pierce Terry C.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Frank Cass, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 355
• Soggetto topico: Military art and science - Technological innovations; Strategy - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Warfighting and disruptive technologies
• ISBN: 0-429-23040-0; 1-135-76932-X; 1-280-05183-3; 9786610051830; 0-203-34155-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451301303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cass series--strategy and history.