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Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry

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Description for Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry Hardback. Analyzes the United States military's effort to capitalize on information technology. This book examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration that will enable the military format. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JW; TTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration that will enable the new military format. Dombrowski and Gholz's analysis integrates the political relationship between the defense industry and Congress, the bureaucratic relationship between ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231135702
SKU
V9780231135702
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Peter Dombrowski
Peter Dombrowski is professor and chair of the Strategic Research Department at the Naval War College in Rhode Island. He is the author of more than thirty journal articles, monographs, book chapters, and governmental reports in the fields of international relations, international political economy, and national security.Eugene Gholz is an assistant professor at the University of Texas in Austin. He ... Read more

Reviews for Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry
An intriguing addition to the literature on military innovation.
Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs "The book offers key lessons for the theory of the Revolution in Military Affairs."
Andrew Brooks Survival

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