Converging and Diverging Iteratively: An Inquiry into Why Militaries are Terrible at Innovation (Part 4 of 5) | by Ben Zweibelson, PhD | Apr, 2023 | Medium

This is part FOUR of a five part series where I share some current research that I am working on concerning military innovation. We tend to embrace the word and the fanciful notion of being innovative, but institutionally we share a horrible track record of casting out visionary thinkers as heretics and ‘not team players’, and often we have to pursue adaptation instead of actual innovation in complex security challenges. By this, I mean that adaptation is the response to…