Add to ORKGThesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82).This study was performed to test competing theories of innovation for their explanatory power in describing the series of innovations in United States Army aviation centered on the helicopter. The theories of strategic threat, civilian intervention, and inter service rivalry were applied to the innovations of air mobility, the anti-tank helicopter, and recent developments in Army doctrinal thought. This study found that while strategic threat and inter-service rivalry theories provided adequate explanation for the developmental phases of the innovation, only civilian intervention could fully explain the impl...
Weaponry and concepts (that is to say, combat theory, or more specifically, doctrine regarding the p...
Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited. This study examines current U.S. Army attack...
In the face of defeat, national militaries occasionally exhibit the ability to engage in doctrinal i...
The Global War on Terror and recent shift of focus from conventional warfare to unconventional warf...
After World War II, the U.S. Army fought for relevance and resources following the emergence of the ...
Subsequent to the formation of the United States Air Force in 1947, the United States Army developed...
Air power theories tries to describe how air power should be implemented to reach strategical ends. ...
Explores the origins, rate, and impact of innovations in military organizations, doctrine, and weapo...
Interservice rivalry in the U.S. armed forces is a phenomenon observed over a long period of time, w...
This work examines the unique threat and opportunity posed by aviation to the horse cavalry in the 1...
This thesis assesses the different options for modernizing Army National Guard light utility helicop...
“In either case, the helicopter has sig- nificantly changed the face of modern warfare. It has done ...
This dissertation argues that in the years immediately following the Second World War, the United St...
From the Battle for the Ia-Drang Valley in 1965 to the final withdrawal from the American Embassy in...
How do militaries integrate new technologies into their existing tactical arsenal? Often, militaries...
Weaponry and concepts (that is to say, combat theory, or more specifically, doctrine regarding the p...
Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited. This study examines current U.S. Army attack...
In the face of defeat, national militaries occasionally exhibit the ability to engage in doctrinal i...
The Global War on Terror and recent shift of focus from conventional warfare to unconventional warf...
After World War II, the U.S. Army fought for relevance and resources following the emergence of the ...
Subsequent to the formation of the United States Air Force in 1947, the United States Army developed...
Air power theories tries to describe how air power should be implemented to reach strategical ends. ...
Explores the origins, rate, and impact of innovations in military organizations, doctrine, and weapo...
Interservice rivalry in the U.S. armed forces is a phenomenon observed over a long period of time, w...
This work examines the unique threat and opportunity posed by aviation to the horse cavalry in the 1...
This thesis assesses the different options for modernizing Army National Guard light utility helicop...
“In either case, the helicopter has sig- nificantly changed the face of modern warfare. It has done ...
This dissertation argues that in the years immediately following the Second World War, the United St...
From the Battle for the Ia-Drang Valley in 1965 to the final withdrawal from the American Embassy in...
How do militaries integrate new technologies into their existing tactical arsenal? Often, militaries...
Weaponry and concepts (that is to say, combat theory, or more specifically, doctrine regarding the p...
Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited. This study examines current U.S. Army attack...
In the face of defeat, national militaries occasionally exhibit the ability to engage in doctrinal i...