Strategic culture--Israel, Military art and science--Technological innovations--Israel, Military art and science--Technological innovations--Soviet Union, Military art and science--Technological innovations--United States, Strategic culture--Soviet Union, and Strategic culture--United States
Abstract
This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in Russia, the US, and Israel indicates the opposite. The US developed technology and weaponry for about a decade without reconceptualizing the existing paradigm about the nature of warfare. Soviet'new theory of victory'represented a conceptualization which chronologically preceded technological procurement. Israel was the first to utilize the weaponry on the battlefield, but was the last to develop a conceptual framework that acknowledged its revolutionary implications. Utilizing primary sources that had previously been completely inaccessible, and borrowing methods of analysis from political science, history, anthropology, and cognitive psychology, this book suggests a cultural explanation for this puzzling transformation in warfare. The Culture of Military Innovation offers a systematic, thorough, and unique analytical approach that may well be applicable in other perplexing strategic situations. Though framed in the context of specific historical experience, the insights of this book reveal important implications related to conventional, subconventional, and nonconventional security issues. It is therefore an ideal reference work for practitioners, scholars, teachers, and students of security studies.
Osipov, G. V. (Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich), 1929- author., Kara-Murza, S. G., author., and Osipov, G. V. (Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich), 1929- author.
Subjects
Information society -- Soviet Union., Knowledge economy -- Soviet Union., Technological innovations -- Soviet Union., Domestic policy., Economic history and conditions., Economics., and Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform.
Osipov, G. V. (Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich), 1929- author., Kara-Murza, S. G., author., and Osipov, G. V. (Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich), 1929- author.
Subjects
Information society -- Soviet Union., Information society -- Western countries., Knowledge economy -- Soviet Union., Knowledge economy -- Western countries., Technological innovations -- Soviet Union., and Technological innovations -- Western countries.
Gregory Guroff, Fred V. Carstensen, Gregory Guroff, and Fred V. Carstensen
Subjects
Industrial management--Soviet Union--History, Business enterprises--Soviet Union--History, Technological innovations--Soviet Union--History, Businesspeople--Soviet Union--History, and Entrepreneurship--History
Abstract
This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of central government on economic initiative.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- Soviet Union, Strategic culture -- Soviet Union, Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States, Strategic culture -- United States, Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- Israel, Strategic culture -- Israel, Militär, Innovation, Kultur, Soviet Union -- Armed Forces -- Technological innovations, United States -- Armed Forces -- Technological innovations, Israel -- Armed Forces -- Technological innovations, Sowjetunion, USA, Israel, and 355/.07
Rumi͡ant͡sev, A. A. (Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich), Merson, A. L. (Anna Lʹvovna), Institut sot͡sialʹno-ėkonomicheskikh problem (Akademii͡a nauk SSSR), and Rumi͡ant͡sev, A. A. (Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich)
Subjects
Technological innovations -- Soviet Union -- Economic aspects. and Technological innovations -- Soviet Union -- Social aspects.