Methodologies and Models in Military Innovation Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22156771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Burke ii Laurence M (Smithsonian Institution, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 110-134 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Military History and Historiography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2468-3299 • E-ISSN: 2468-3302 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/24683302-20190002 |
| OpenAlex | W2963416018 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Barry Posen’s 1984 book, The Sources of Military Doctrine , is considered to have kicked off the field of military innovation studies. While historians have made contributions to the field, it is the political scientists who have created new models of military innovation, likely because historians avoid the predictive connotations of “model”. This article first reviews the dominant models in the field that rely on the actions and decisions of individuals (as opposed to more diffuse cultural models) and places them in dialogue with each other. Second, it argues that historians should be less leery of “models”, since they create or use implicit models in their own work. Finally, this article proposes that the various models laid out in the first part of the article may be seen as specific cases of a methodology from science and technology studies, “Actor/Network Theory”, which is a promising new tool for analyzing military innovation
Doctrine · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Management science · Military doctrine · Military theory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Engineering · History of Computing Technologies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |