Date: 2013
Type: Book
Importing the American way of war? : network-centric warfare in the UK and Germany
Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2013, Militär und Sozialwissenschaften ; 48
WIESNER, Ina, Importing the American way of war? : network-centric warfare in the UK and Germany, Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2013, Militär und Sozialwissenschaften ; 48
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62304
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This study takes a closer look at the adoption of the U.S. military concept of network-centric warfare (NCW) by the British and the German armed forces. The book uncovers the striking differences between NCW adoption in the UK and in Germany in terms of timing, pace, concept faithfulness and implementation. Relying on the process tracing technique and framed by an institutionalist argument the study establishes that a different composition of efficiency/effectiveness and legitimacy-related drivers in the two cases can account for the different adoption outcomes. In the case of NCW adoption, the British military was an efficiency maximiser whereas the German military was a legitimacy maximiser.
Table of Contents:
-- Approaching the diffusion of network-centric warfare
-- Network-centric warfare and U.S. military transformation
-- Military concept adoption -- Network-enabled capabilities in the UK
-- Vernetzte Operationsführung in Germany.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62304
Full-text via DOI: 10.5771/9783845247908
ISBN: 9783848704965; 9783848704965
Publisher: Nomos
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/19441
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2011