When the Navy wanted to shift from an aircraft, from a battleship Navy to an aircraft Navy,

the guy who led them was a battleship Admiral, Admiral Moffat.

And he could do that because the Navy respected. They could not dismiss him as an outsider who was kind of making enough.

The United States, as a country, has a 100% record predicting who our enemy is going to be

and where we're going to fight.

We've been wrong all the time since, you know, nobody's going to fight in Korea, Vietnam,

Iraq, you can't set.

But people have been successful in predicting not who we were going to fight but how we were

going to fight.

Hi and welcome back to the Modern War Institute podcast. I'm John Ambo, editorial director at

MWI and today we've got a great episode featuring a fascinating conversation about

innovation and the military.

MWI's Captain Jake Moraldi sits down with Professor Stephen Rosen, a professor of national security and military affairs at Harvard University.

The conversation touches on a range of very interesting questions.

How and why, for instance, did the US Navy shift

from battleships to aircraft carriers after World War I?

What gave the US Army the innovative capacity

to adopt helicopter aviation after World War II?

What makes innovation happen in the military?

And perhaps more importantly, what keeps it from happening?

Professor Rosen tackles these and an array of other questions in this discussion.

Before we get started, a couple quick notes.

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