I’ve been trying for years to to adapt the warfare “generations” model to management and I think I finally have the mapping right. The problem is that while both military and business are driven by tech, the business world is also driven by regulatory forces, muddying things
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In particular, historically navy and army evolutionary paths have been out of phase by about a cycle. Navies tend to be half a generation ahead on doctrine but half a generation ahead on technology. This is because navies have historically been the highest-tech branch.
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(this explains the millennium war games/van riper episode outcome in 2000... NCW was a Navy idea, and is really 2nd gen warfare, which is why it got pwned by low-tech 3rd generation warfare which at the time was ~55 years old)
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I have to work this out more carefully, the phase-mismatch is not constant. During war in the at;antic (U-boats), navies briefly leaped forward to 3rd gen before backsliding to 2nd with Carrier era.
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A lot of my consulting shtick is basically a result of being simultaneously a lowkey war nerd and a lowkey management history nerd. I’m not as nerdy as full-blown devotees of either side, but I generally grok the historic interplay better than specialists on either side.
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