Military Review English Edition September-October 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 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
Soldiers from the 2nd Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, lean against a mud wall 9 January
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2012 during
a break from
combat
operations in Spin Boldak District, Afghanistan.
(Photo by Spc. Crystal Davis, Combat Camera Afghanistan)
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