Tom Dyson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway College. He is the author of The Politics of German Defence and Security, Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in post-Cold War Europe and the co-author (with Theodore Konstadinides) of European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory.
Introduction: lessons-learned processes as the transmission belt from
adaptation to innovation; 1 A model of best practice in military learning;
2 Theorising military learning; CASE STUDY 1 The evolution and performance
of British Army lessons learned; 3 The development of the institutional
architecture of British Army lessons learned: a tale of two potential
absorptive capacities; 4 The performance of British Army lessons learned:
tactical-level success and operational-level failure; 5 The British Army's
knowledge transformation capability: the struggle to establish a culture of
experimentation and creativity; CASE STUDY 2 The evolution and performance
of German Army lessons learned; 6 The development of the institutional
architecture of German Army lessons learned: improving potential absorptive
capacity; 7 The performance of German Army lessons learned: limited
adaptation, innovation and emulation at the tactical and operational
levels; 8 The impediments to knowledge transformation in the German Army;
Reflections on the sources of military learning and future research
agendas: getting leadership and processes right; Appendix; Index
