The Culture of Military Innovation

Adamsky, Dima

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“…Israelis are remarkably casual, informal, assertive, and flexible in their dealings with each other. 10 This resulting overall informality and absence of hierarchy, together with a "common and collective sense of insecurity," helps spur innovation-especially in the military-technological realm-by breaking down barriers to interaction and creating an atmosphere that encourages and enables the free exchange of ideas. 11 In short, Israel is a society more inclined to engage in high-risk military-technological innovation, because it is deemed essential to national survival.…”

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Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore

Bitzinger

2021

Journal of Strategic Studies

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I srael and Singapore are both countries with small populations and no strategic depth, and both see technology as a crucial force multiplier when it comes to national security. Israel, however, has been much more successful than Singapore in developing a range of indigenous military-technological innovations. The reasons are both geostrategic and cultural. Israel faces a much more looming and imminent threat which demands more military-technological innovation.Moreover, Israel's informal and anti-hierarchical society is much more supportive than Singapore's when it comes to risk-taking and experimentation.

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Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore

Bitzinger

2021

Journal of Strategic Studies

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“…The lack of intellectual vigour, however, has always been compensated by the Israeli cultural emphasis on improvisation, where officers' ability 'to orient, to think, and to bounce ideas quickly,' finding a better, 'not-by-the-book' solution, is considered a hallmark of military performance. 98 This cultivation of improvisation in the IDF has often been connected to the IDF's culture of 'anti-intellectualism', or even 'false intellectualism'. 99 A recent criticism from the Winograd Commission of inquiry into the events of the Second Lebanon War highlighted 'the connection between cultural organisation of improvisation and the lack of professionalism at the level of soldiers, as well as commanders'.…”

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A Rose by Any Other Name? Strategic Communications in Israel

Siman-Tov¹,

Fridman²

2020

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The term strategic communications is missing from the Israeli academic and professional discourse. Instead, there are three different conceptual approaches to state communication in Israel—hasbara, public diplomacy, and cognitive campaign. Analysing the history of the development and employment of these three concepts, this article makes two contributions important for the field of strategic communications. First, it analyses how Israel has found itself with various approaches; why it does not have one comprehensive framework; and whether any of the three approaches can be considered the equivalent of ‘Israeli strategic communications’. Second, based on the case of Israel, it establishes the need for states to have an exhaustive conceptual framework to conduct strategic communications and the consequences of the absence of such a framework.

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“…12 Ultimately, the RMA refers to a period of major military innovation concerning the exploitation of new technologies related to information processing, communication, surveillance, networking, and precision strike, along with new strategic ideas intended to greatly reshape the character of modern warfare. 13 To exploit the potential of this RMA concept, US defense planners set in motion a series of organizational and doctrinal changes known as force transformation. The purpose of this process was to shrink the size of the military and increase flexibility while not minimizing lethality.…”

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Transformation and the war in Afghanistan / Alexander Salt.

2018

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During the 1990s and early 2000s the US military was largely shaped by the concept of the revolution in military affairs (RMA) and subsequent force transformation process, which integrated new information and communication technologies, precision strike capabilities, doctrine, operational approaches, and force structures to allow the military to overcome new strategic challenges. Significant questions, however, have emerged regarding the utility of the RMA and transformation during hybrid wars, where the lines blur between conventional and irregular threats. This article examines the utility of transformation during the war in Afghanistan. It argues that a transformation-influenced "light footprint" of special operations forces and airpower has clear relevancy during present and future hybrid conflicts. This relevancy is enhanced when the use of the light footprint is paired with a clear and achievable war aim. 1 ✵ ✵ ✵ ✵ ✵A scrimmage in a Border Station-A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. . . . Strike hard who cares-shoot straight who canThe odds are on the cheaper man. -Richard Kipling "Arithmetic on the Frontier" Alexander Salt is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary's Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies. He holds an MA in political studies from the University of Manitoba (2014) and a BA with honors in history and political studies from Queen's University, Ontario (2010).

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The Culture of Military Innovation

Cited by 120 publications

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Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore

Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore

A Rose by Any Other Name? Strategic Communications in Israel

Transformation and the war in Afghanistan / Alexander Salt.

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