{"product_id":"picking-the-bone-jonathan-creer-9781249362494","title":"Picking the Bone: The B-1 Bomber as a Platform for Innovation","description":"In the early 1990s, the United States Air Force envisioned the need to change the mission and technological capabilities of its strategic nuclear bomber, the B 1B. The result was transformational. This study uses Stephen P. Rosen's theoretical model of military innovation to explain how the B 1 weapon system, one of the United States' long-range bombers, transformed into an effective weapon system for irregular war within the context of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The B 1's transformation was organizational, cultural, and technological. As a result, a weapon system designed as a nuclear bomber changed into an effective conventional platform and then again into a platform successful in supporting irregular warfare. The study provides a contemporary case study of military innovation tested against the theory of Rosen's intra-service military innovation model. It intends to better understand and document what enabled and what inhibited the transformation of the B 1 weapon system during the relative peacetime environment of the 1990s and during the wartime setting after 2001.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Creer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1249362490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781249362494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioscholar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.27d","brand":"Jonathan Creer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799991496959,"sku":"9781249362494","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/picking-the-bone-jonathan-creer-9781249362494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}