Strategic management of military capabilities : seeking ways to foster military innovation.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Strategic management of defense capabilities / Tomonori Yoshizaki -- Dynamic organizational capabilities : distributed leadership and fractal organization / Ikujiro Nonaka -- Part I. Preparing for future environments : organizational, institutional and human processes. Force capabilities and innovation / Michael Clarke -- Operational net assessment or, preparing to lose the next war / Williamson Murray -- Innovation in defense capabilities and organizational knowledge creation / Yasuhide Yamanouchi -- Part II. Creation of military innovation : strategy, technology and institution. National strategy in the early 21st century : innovating for uncertainty / Paul Cornish -- Reinventing military innovation / Edward N. Luttwak -- Innovation in self-defense force (military) organization / Takashi Saito -- Part III. Various measures of the countries : tackling an uncertain future. ROK MND initiatives for use of civilian resources / Sangjin Lee -- Military capability management for Australia in the 21st century / Andrew Davies -- From self-sufficiency to solidarity : the transformation of Sweden's defence and security policies / Robert Dalsjö -- Strategic management for military capabilities : seeking ways to innovate military capabilities - Indian initiatives / Arun Kumar Singh -- Building dynamic defense / Sugio Takahashi -- Policy implications strategic management of military capabilities / NIDS Strategic Management Research Team.

In preparing for the future, which is the core exercise of "strategic management," it is essential for a country to anticipate and assess various risks that could arise, and to realize "disruptive" innovations ahead of others that would reverse the position of advantage between their country and others. The possible ways to accomplish these goals would include: investing limited resources selectively and intensively into areas expected to grow in the future; procuring from abroad resources that are too scarce domestically for achieving declared goals; and deliberately establishing a system that would make an organization and its functions change daily in order to speedily cope with changes in environment and competitive conditions. This expertise is already established in the study of management; how to apply it to processes of operating military organizations and of setting military strategies are the themes of strategic management.