The Future of War - Organizations as Weapons (Hardcover)

Many analysts have heralded the U.S. military’s Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), a qualitative improvement in operational concepts and weapons that transforms the nature and character of warfare. Focusing on military technology, most argue that the new sensor, surveillance, communications, and computational technologies will usher in a period in which U.S. military capabilities will far exceed those of potential competitors. Developments in such fields as nanotechnology, robotics, and genetic engineering will greatly influence new weapons designs of the twenty-first century. These discussions about military revolutions, however, too often ignore or only pay lip service to the role of military organization in improving combat capability. They downplay the relationship between organizational structure and outcomes, the difficulties of coordinating large organizations composed of many people and offices having specialized roles, and the challenges of calculation, attention, and memory that face individuals making decisions with inadequate or ambiguous information under short deadlines or stressful situations. Mark D. Mandeles argues that the key to future combat effectiveness is not in acquiring new technologies but rather in the Defense Department’s institutional and organizational structure and its effect upon incentives to invent, to innovate, and to conduct operations effectively. Doing so requires the military establishment to resist incentives to substitute short-term technological gains for long-term operational advantages and to maintain incentives for effective long-term innovation.

General

Imprint:	Potomac Books Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Issues in Twenty-First Century Warfare
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	Mark D. Mandeles
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-57488-630-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-57488-630-4
Barcode:	9781574886306

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