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The Culture of Military Innovation: The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.
by
Dima Adamsky
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 d...more
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
January 27th 2010
by Stanford Security Studies
(first published 2010)
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The first chapter featuring Soviet thinking on the Military Technological Revolution (aka Revolution of Military Affairs or RMA in the West) drove me crazy. The language and style reminded me too much of the Communist Manifesto and other crap written with pretentious sounding terms that seem more intended to intimidate or impress a naive reader than informing them. I'm also skeptical that the Soviet methodology or their findings are worthwhile, given the damage much of the same thinking (and res...more
Although it generalizes more than I'd like, this is a study on one of my favorite themes: how does the existing bureaucratic and social culture of a society effect the way they adapt technology to their ideas and their military planning to new technology. Adamsky contrasts the Soviets (unfortunately, he stops at 1989 rather than continue with the current Russian military and its dis/continuities with the past), the US and Israel as they decided how to use the revolution in technology of the 1970...more
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