The U.S. Army has a long record of fielding innovations that not
only have enhanced its effectiveness on the battlefield but also
sometimes had an impact far beyond warfare. General Editor Jon T.
Hoffman has brought together eleven authors who cover the gamut
from the invention of the M1 Garand rifle between the world wars
through the development of the National Training Center in the
1980s. While many books lay out theories about the process of
innovation or detail the history of a large-scale modernization,
the collection of fourteen essays in A History of Innovation: U.S.
Army Adaptation in War and Peace fills a different niche in the
literature. This work is neither a historical account of how the
Army has adapted over time nor a theoretical look at models that
purport to show how innovation is best achieved. Instead, it
captures a representative slice of stories of soldiers and Army
civilians who have demonstrated repeatedly that determination and a
good idea often carry the day in peace and war. Despite the
perception of bureaucratic inertia, the institution's long history
of benefiting from the inventiveness of its people indicates that
it is an incubator of innovation after all.
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