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A Revolution in Military Adaptation - The US Army in the Iraq War (Paperback): Chad C. Serena A Revolution in Military Adaptation - The US Army in the Iraq War (Paperback)
Chad C. Serena; Contributions by Chad C. Serena
R1,730 Discovery Miles 17 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically integrated army and networked and horizontally integrated insurgents ensued. The latter could quickly adapt and conduct networked operations in a decentralized fashion; the former was predisposed to fighting via prescriptive plans under a centralized command and control.

To achieve success, the US Army went through a monumental process of organizational adaptation -- a process driven by soldiers and leaders that spread throughout the institution and led to revolutionary changes in how the army supported and conducted its operations in Iraq. How the army adapted and the implications of this adaptation are the subject of this indispensable study. Intended for policymakers, defense and military professionals, military historians, and academics, this book offers a solid critique of the army's current capacity to adapt to likely future adversary strategies and provides policy recommendations for retaining lessons learned in Iraq.

It Takes More than a Network - The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation (Hardcover, New): Chad C. Serena It Takes More than a Network - The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation (Hardcover, New)
Chad C. Serena
R2,493 Discovery Miles 24 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"It Takes More than a Network" presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed by 2008. The book's main argument is that the Iraqi insurgency failed to achieve longer-term organizational goals because many of its organizational strengths were also its organizational weaknesses: these characteristics abetted and then corrupted the Iraqi insurgency's ability to adapt. The book further compares the organizational adaptation of the Iraqi insurgency with the organizational adaptation of the Afghan insurgency. This is done to refine the findings of the Iraq case and to present a more robust analysis of the adaptive cycles of two large and diverse covert networked insurgencies. The book finds that the Afghan insurgency, although still ongoing, has adapted more successfully than the Iraqi insurgency because it has been better able to leverage the strengths and counter the weaknesses of its chosen organizational form.

It Takes More than a Network - The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation (Paperback): Chad C. Serena It Takes More than a Network - The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation (Paperback)
Chad C. Serena
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed by 2008. The book's main argument is that the Iraqi insurgency failed to achieve longer-term organizational goals because many of its organizational strengths were also its organizational weaknesses: these characteristics abetted and then corrupted the Iraqi insurgency's ability to adapt. The book further compares the organizational adaptation of the Iraqi insurgency with the organizational adaptation of the Afghan insurgency. This is done to refine the findings of the Iraq case and to present a more robust analysis of the adaptive cycles of two large and diverse covert networked insurgencies. The book finds that the Afghan insurgency, although still ongoing, has adapted more successfully than the Iraqi insurgency because it has been better able to leverage the strengths and counter the weaknesses of its chosen organizational form.

Tactical Cyber - Building a Strategy for Cyber Support to Corps and Below (Paperback): Isaac R Porche, Christopher Paul, Chad... Tactical Cyber - Building a Strategy for Cyber Support to Corps and Below (Paperback)
Isaac R Porche, Christopher Paul, Chad C. Serena, Colin P. Clarke, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, …
R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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