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Organizational Culture and Learning during the First World War | Defence-In-Depth

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. Organizational Culture and Learning during the First World War. Podcasts from the roundtable are available to download here. By Dr ROBERT T. FOLEY. We can see this clearly when we compare the British and the German armies during the war. Although both armies changed almost beyond recognition between 1914 and 1918, the cultures that dominated these institutions at the start of the war remained largely intact. The two armies displ...As th...

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. Operational Art: Pinheads and Angels. In his previous blog. The root of the difficulty lies in differing interpretations of which of the two concepts should take precedence. It was the Soviet Union that first developed a systemised concept of operational art (what they termed. Operational art governs tactical creativity and links together tactical actions into a campaign to achieve strategic goals.’. Interestingly, this formal codificat...

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. Conference Report: Society of Military History Annual Meeting, Ottawa, April 2016. By DR HUW J. DAVIES. The annual meeting of the Society of Military History is usually unexceptional in this regard: an enjoyable conference where like minds meet, discuss new ideas, and drink gin. It is a valuable occasion, when intellectual juices flow, and new avenues of research unearthed. Military historians have long felt, justly or unjustly, rightly...

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Military Innovation Studies: Well-Set for the Future? | Defence-In-Depth

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. Military Innovation Studies: Well-Set for the Future? Podcasts from the roundtable are available to download here. By DR STUART GRIFFIN. On 17 June, I was given the unenviable task of delivering the final presentation of the inaugural Military Innovation and Learning Research Group roundtable. This was unenviable in two ways. First, if you have read the preceding blogs from Huw Davies. Why is it important to re-state it here? Reblogged ...

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Military Innovation | Defence-In-Depth

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. And Dr Christopher Tuck. Next month, our multi-authored volume. Will be published in its second edition by Cambridge University Press. Is a book explicitly about modern war. There are many excellent existing works on war generally: this volume is concerned instead with the employment of organised violence: it is about fighting. But why should we be concerned with such a topic? The Face of Battle. It is not through what armies. Is not a ...

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Civil-Military Relations | Defence-In-Depth

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. How do Military Coups Fail? On the night of Friday 15. July 2016 elements of the Turkish armed forces attempted to overthrow the democratically-elected but increasingly authoritarian government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After a bloody night of fighting in Ankara and Istanbul, and at least 290 deaths, this attempted. Edward Luttwak has already provided an analysis on the coup’s failure. And the most dramatic manifestation of tha...

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Informal Learning in the British Army in the Eighteenth Century | Defence-In-Depth

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. Informal Learning in the British Army in the Eighteenth Century. By DR HUW J DAVIES. Podcasts from the roundtable are available to download here. Although branded anti-intellectual by historians, I have argued in previous posts ( here. Historian Kaushik Roy, in a seminal article in the Journal of Military History. Image: Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Battle of Alexandria, 21 March 1801. And tagged British Army. July 1, 2015. You ar...

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Beyond the Western Front: Inter-Theatre Learning in the British Army of the First World War | Defence-In-Depth

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. Beyond the Western Front: Inter-Theatre Learning in the British Army of the First World War. Podcasts from the roundtable are available to download here. To understand how the army learned during the First World War, we need to understand its pre-war ethos. As Robert Foley has written here. And Sergio Catignani ( here. And tagged British Army. July 15, 2015. British Grand Strategy in 1914. Kostas D. Pantios. July 15, 2015 at 15:08.

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Ball Bearings Innovation: The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Increments of Transformational Change | Defence-In-Depth

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Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. Ball Bearings Innovation: The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Increments of Transformational Change. Podcasts from the roundtable are available to download here. By DR JILL S. RUSSELL. Image: Aerial view of Mulberry harbour “B” (October 27, 1944). And tagged Civil-Military Relations. July 29, 2015. Trade Leads To Peace: Liberals and Realists Agree! Strategic Understanding in the Vietnam War →. JDB Communications, LLC.