Lexington Books
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4985-5177-9 • Hardback • April 2018 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
978-1-4985-5178-6 • eBook • April 2018 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
Nicholas Michael Sambaluk is associate professor of strategy at Air University and author of The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security, named "Best Air Power History Book of 2016" by the Air Force Historical Foundation.
Introduction, Nicholas Michael Sambaluk
Chapter 1: Mapping the Mediterranean in the Age of the Crusades, Stuart H. Peebles
Chapter 2: “To Avoid Any Considerable Misfortune:” George Washington, Charles Lee, and Grand Strategy in the American Revolution, Adrienne M. Harrison
Chapter 3: The Texas Rangers and Samuel Colt: Partners in Combat Innovation, Nathan A. Jennings
Chapter 4: Ben Butler’s Black Battalions: Political Generalship and Military Experimentation with African-Americans during the Civil War, Mark Ehlers
Chapter 5: New Frontiers: Making Alaska a Terra Cognita, Russ Vanderlugt
Chapter 6: Building Peace: Civil Affairs and Military Government in the Second World War, Dave Musick
Chapter 7: Mixing Spanners with Wrenches: SPOBS and the Establishment of an Anglo-American Aircraft Maintenance Program in Britain during World War II, Richard H. Anderson
Chapter 8: Managing Innovation: Protecting, Promoting, and Propagating Science and Technology in World War II, Nicholas Michael Sambaluk
Chapter 9: Innovating “Lawfare”: The Use of Law as a Weapon in Cyprus, 1955–1959, Brian Drohan
Chapter 10: The Party Army as Innovation: Tracing the Origins of China’s Modern Military, Jason Halub
Chapter 11: War by Tweet, Hashtag, and Media Messaging: Boko Haram’s Media Warfare Challenges Nigeria’s Information Campaign (2012–2015), John P. Ringquist
Chapter 12: Atrocity Early Warning: A Historiographical Study of the Prevention of Mass Atrocities, Charles Costanzo
Conclusion, Nicholas Michael Sambaluk
This very interesting and timely edited volume looks at pathways for innovations in warfare across history. As the authors describe, innovation is a process that is vital, but exceptionally challenging, to master. With chapters ranging from the Crusades to the Texas Rangers to Boko Haram, the contributors present a variety of perspectives on how innovations in weapons, tactics, and warfare occur. This book offers important and helpful lessons that should shape the way we think about innovation in warfare moving forward.
— Michael Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania
This stimulating, heterogeneous collection of case studies defines innovation broadly and explores it across a grand sweep of international history. It moves from medieval cartography during the Crusades and grand strategy in the American Revolution to racial integration of combat units and contemporary media warfare in Nigeria. Editor Nicholas Michael Sambaluk concludes the volume with conceptual threads that he finds running through the case studies.
— Alex Roland, Duke University
Nicholas Michael Sambaluk provides a range of fresh scholarship on a wide array of military innovations—defining the term broadly—and forces us all to reconsider the very term ‘innovation.’ Here one finds ideas, processes, institutions, and technologies, all in their full interaction with social and cultural forces. Innovation emerges not as a stroke of genius, but as a complex response to complex problems, from medieval mapmaking to the militarization of slaves and the invention of lawfare. There is much to digest here.
— Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada