By Mark D. Mandeles
These discussions approximately army revolutions, notwithstanding, too frequently forget about or basically pay lip provider to the function of army association in bettering wrestle strength. They downplay the connection among organizational constitution and results, the problems of coordinating huge agencies composed of many folks and places of work having really expert roles, and the demanding situations of calculation, cognizance, and reminiscence that face participants making judgements with insufficient or ambiguous info less than brief points in time or demanding situations.
Mark D. Mandeles argues that the main to destiny wrestle effectiveness isn't really in buying new applied sciences yet really within the safety Department’s institutional and organizational constitution and its influence upon incentives to invent, to innovate, and to behavior operations successfully. Doing so calls for the army institution to withstand incentives to replacement momentary technological profits for long term operational merits and to keep up incentives for potent long term innovation.
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Historical events). These issues will be considered in turn. Impact of Social Structure In one respect, a concern with the historical origin of a complex of technologies, operational concepts, and organizations may yield useful insights into particular features of that complex. 37 The pyramid-shaped hierarchical structure of today’s railroad organizations, invented in the nineteenth century, is much different from the flat structure of late-twentieth-century software design firms. Furthermore, some organizational forms could not be invented until the social conditions appropriate to them had been created.
RFE/RL Research Institute 3 (1991); Peter Schweizer, ‘‘The Soviet Military Goes High-Tech,’’ Orbis (Spring 1991): 195–218; D. L. Smith and A. L. Meier, ‘‘Ogarkov’s Revolution: Soviet Military Doctrine for the 1990s,’’ International Defense Review 20 (July 1987): 869–873. 3 ................. 11450$ $CH3 08-10-05 15:14:51 PS PAGE 32 L E V E L S O F A N A LY S I S , T R A D E - O F F S 33 vanced systems may provide an order of magnitude increase in combat capability. 4 For American analysts, a military revolution occurs not as the result of the deployment of a single new weapon or technology, but when a set of technologies and associated operational concepts transform the nature and character of warfare and military organizations and their personnel are able to deploy and exploit this set of technologies.
March (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965), 154–159. 36 ................. 11450$ $CH2 08-10-05 15:14:58 PS PAGE 23 24 THE FUTU RE OF WAR electronic equipment, and (3) a practiced ability to innovate to achieve high-level objectives. A favorable social structure is a necessary but insufficient condition, however, for the elaboration of information revolution–based military capabilities. If these twenty-first-century social conditions are applicable to military organizations, the structure and operational modes of future RMA combat organizations may look very different from the twentieth century’s peacetime military organizations for training, acquiring, and equipping.
