Military Review English Edition November-December 2015 | Page 5

The Future of Innovation in the Army
July-August 2016

• How much innovation is just right? Can you have too much?
• Historical examples of institutionally fostered innovation
• Institutional and cultural obstacles to innovation in the U.S. Army of the twenty-first century
Dealing with a Shrinking Army
September-October 2016

• Lessons from post-Civil War, post-World War I, post-World War II, post-Vietnam, and postCold War
• Training to standard with limited resources
• Quality retention during forced drawdowns
• The good, bad, and ugly of distance learning
Tides of History: How they Shape the
Security Environment
November-December 2016

• Mao’s three stages of revolutionary warfare and the rise of ISIL and Boko Haram; winning
by outgoverning
• Collisions of culture: The struggle for cultural hegemony in stability operations. Can a nation
survive without a common national narrative?
• Case studies: Histories of illegal immigration and how such have shaped national development
in various countries
• Does the military have a role in saving democracy from itself? Compare and contrast the military’s
role in the life of the Weimar Republic and Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood rule of Egypt