Winning the Next War

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Innovation and the Modern Military

Stephen Peter Rosen, Robert J. Art, Robert L. Jervis , Walter Stephen

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Miscellaneous
03 May 1994

History; Central government policies; Defence strategy, planning & research

Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to ""fight the last war."" Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the international strategic situation. He also discusses the changing relationship between the civilian innovator and the military bureaucrat.

In peacetime, Rosen finds, innovation has been the product of analysis and the politics of military promotion, in a process that has slowly but successfully built military capabilities critical to American military success. In wartime, by contrast, innovation has been constrained by the fog of war and the urgency of combat needs. Rosen draws his principal evidence from U.S. military policy between 1905 and 1960, though he also discusses the British army's experience with the battle tank during World War I.

By: Stephen Peter Rosen
Edited by: Robert J. Art, Robert L. Jervis, Walter Stephen
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Reprinted edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780801481963
ISBN 10: 0801481961
Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 03 May 1994
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Peter Rosen is Harvard College Professor and Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military

Professionals interested in national security will find it hard to ignore this book. . . . Rosen recounts how major innovations in the twentieth century changed the way wars were fought. His underlying message is that understanding the process of innovation holds more importance to winning future wars than focusing on any particular change in weapons, organizations, or tactics. . . . Rosen crafts his book with a historian's eye for the facts and a political scientist s willingness to draw conclusions. Military Review