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100 1 _aKUO Kendrick
245 _aDangerous changes:
_bwhen military innovation harms combat effectiveness/
_cKendrick Kuo
260 _c2022
520 _aPrevailing wisdom suggests that innovation dramatically enhances the effectiveness of a state's armed forces. But self-defeating innovation is more likely to occur when a military service's growing security commitments outstrip shrinking resources. This wide commitment-resource gap pressures the service to make desperate gambles on new capabilities to meet overly ambitious goals while cannibalizing traditional capabilities before beliefs about the effectiveness of new ones are justified. Doing so increases the chances that when wartime comes, the service will discover that the new capability cannot alone accomplish assigned missions, and that neglecting traditional capabilities produces vulnerabilities that the enemy can exploit.
650 _aMILITARY
650 _aMILITARY POWER
650 _aINNOVATION
650 _aCOMBAT
773 _aInternational Security :
_gVol 47, No 2, Fall 2022, pp.48-87 (68)
598 _aMILITARY
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00446
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