Networking to Learn: #Reviewing Learning to Fight

Sometimes you come across a great book review - that is likely better than the book - and with more interesting links that will take you to so many related areas on understanding how a military adapts during conflicts.
One part of the article talks about Horizontal Learning.. and I wondered how many have actually heard of that (as opposed to adapting coming down from the top) . Here is a description of the German application of Horizontal learning. " During World War I, the German Army innovated by spreading knowledge between units rather than up and downthe chain of command. Thus, this army used ‘horizontal innovation’, rather than vertical innovation to change how it fought in the midst of battle. Although combat in World War I is significantly different from operations today, horizontal innovation offers armed forces a means by which to transform themselves much more rapidly than the traditionally recognised forms of military innovation."