Professor Frank Hoffman

Mars Adapting explores the internal institutional factors that promote and enable military adaptation. It uses four case studies from each of the U.S. armed services to analyze how military organizations adapt during extensive campaigns. The book introduces the concept of Organizational Learning Capacity, highlighting four key attributes: leadership, organizational culture, learning mechanisms, and dissemination mechanisms, which influence an organization's ability to adapt.

In this book, Victor Davis Hanson explores how the Greeks of the fifth century B.C. invented the central act of Western warfare—the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambushes, skirmishes, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. Hanson links this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional government, raising new issues and questioning old assumptions about the history of war. The book addresses recent scholarship on Greek warfare and examines the cultural, technological, and societal factors that contributed to Western battlefield superiority.