Making Tactical Innovation Happen: Five Tips for Leveraging Creativity and Experimentation in...

"The 2018 National Defense Strategy called for establishing a “National Defense Innovation Base” that would support and sustain US national security by “out-innovat[ing] revisionist powers.” Despite this clear call, pinning down a definition of military innovation is tough. In this paper, we’ve adopted the definition published in 2007 by the RAND Corporation: “development of new warfighting concepts and/or new means of integrating technology.” Crucially, this definition captures that innovation takes forms beyond technology."