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Transforming Defense Capabilities : New Approaches for International Security / ed. by Scott Jasper.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685856755
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Capabilities-Based Approach -- Part 1 Thinking About Transformation -- 2 On Military Revolution -- 3 The Influence of the Information Age -- 4 Patterns in Innovation -- 5 Pressing Contemporary Issues -- Part 2 Implementing Transformation -- 6 Collective Solution Guidelines -- 7 The Role of Concept Development -- 8 Scientific Rigor in Defense Experimentation -- 9 The US Shift Beyond Capital Assets -- 10 The NATO Response Force Initiative -- 11 Pacific Theater Assessments -- Part 3 Conclusion -- 12 Measuring Progress -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: In the face of today's security challenges, there is widespread recognition of the need to think and act in new ways to ensure both national and collective security interests. Transforming Defense Capabilities succinctly describes what transformation means in this context, why it is essential, and how to translate innovative concepts into relevant, feasible, and useful practice. The authors define all aspects of the transformation process, offering useful insights and proven methods for developing integrated defense capabilities. Demonstrating how enabling technologies can be combined with personnel development, organizational improvements, and creative change, they present a comprehensive guide for implementing an essential, capabilities-based approach to international defense transformation.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Capabilities-Based Approach -- Part 1 Thinking About Transformation -- 2 On Military Revolution -- 3 The Influence of the Information Age -- 4 Patterns in Innovation -- 5 Pressing Contemporary Issues -- Part 2 Implementing Transformation -- 6 Collective Solution Guidelines -- 7 The Role of Concept Development -- 8 Scientific Rigor in Defense Experimentation -- 9 The US Shift Beyond Capital Assets -- 10 The NATO Response Force Initiative -- 11 Pacific Theater Assessments -- Part 3 Conclusion -- 12 Measuring Progress -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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In the face of today's security challenges, there is widespread recognition of the need to think and act in new ways to ensure both national and collective security interests. Transforming Defense Capabilities succinctly describes what transformation means in this context, why it is essential, and how to translate innovative concepts into relevant, feasible, and useful practice. The authors define all aspects of the transformation process, offering useful insights and proven methods for developing integrated defense capabilities. Demonstrating how enabling technologies can be combined with personnel development, organizational improvements, and creative change, they present a comprehensive guide for implementing an essential, capabilities-based approach to international defense transformation.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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