Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108988025.006
I. B. Holley
I. B. Holley’s Ideas and Weapons is a relentlessly administrative history of aircraft development and production during World War I. Its cast of characters consists primarily of three-letter agencies, and its narrative is overwhelmingly concerned with the organizational structure of the military bureaucracy. On the face of it, revisiting Holley’s book should be a deadening ordeal. All the more reason to celebrate Ideas and Weapons, for it is anything but.1 Its theme, so chillingly prominent when the book was published in 1953, is vital once again. Holley’s analytical insights, particularly with regard to the role of institutional structure in shaping technological and doctrinal change in the military, continue to shape contemporary understanding of the history of military technology. Although the book is clearly a product of its time, it remains a vigorous and engaging classic. Ideas and Weapons addresses a central question: What are the forces that shape effective innovation in military technology and practice? In particular, Holley sought to investigate how emerging technological possibilities can be transformed into technological realities in the form of operationally useful weapons by examining the actions, interactions, and structure of military organizations. The book is a model of organizational simplicity, in many ways resembling a military staff study—a form that must have been familiar to Holley
霍利(i.b. Holley)的《思想与武器》(Ideas and Weapons)无情地记录了第一次世界大战期间飞机研发和生产的行政史。书中的角色主要由三个字母组成的机构组成，其叙事主要与军事官僚机构的组织结构有关。从表面上看，重读霍利的书应该是一种令人窒息的折磨。更有理由庆祝《思想与武器》，因为它绝不是它的主题在1953年出版时是如此令人不寒而栗地突出，现在再次变得至关重要。霍利的分析见解，特别是关于制度结构在塑造军事技术和理论变革中的作用，继续塑造当代对军事技术史的理解。虽然这本书显然是那个时代的产物，但它仍然是一部充满活力、引人入胜的经典。《思想与武器》解决了一个核心问题:什么力量塑造了军事技术和实践的有效创新?特别是，霍利试图通过研究军事组织的行动、互动和结构，研究新兴技术的可能性如何以实用武器的形式转化为技术现实。这本书是组织简单的典范，在许多方面类似于军事人员研究——这种形式对霍利来说一定很熟悉
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