Dr. Aimee Fox & Dr. Heather Venable, “On Innovation and Institutional Identity - Lessons for Today”

This episode features two Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellows, both with backgrounds in military history and institutional innovation The first guest is Dr. Aimée Fox, a historian of warfare who explores military innovation and change in historic and contemporary armed forces. She is an assistant professor in King’s College London’s Defense Studies Department based at the United Kingdom’s Joint Services Command and Staff College. Her first book, Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was awarded both the Templer Medal for Best First Book by the Society for Army Historical Research and the British Army Military Book of the Year prize in 2018. Her current research explores the importance of social relations and informal networks to the process of innovation, and the ways in which the social politics of military organizations helps or hinders innovation with a particular focus on the role of command and leadership.

The second guest is Dr. Heather P. Venable, Associate Professor of Military and Security Studies in the Department of Airpower at the United States Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College. She has also served as a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, where she taught naval and Marine Corps history. Last year Naval Institute Press published her new book, How the Few Became the Proud: The Making of the Marine Corps’ Mythos, 1874-1918. This book has been strongly recommended by digital military journals such as the Strategy Bridge, War on the Rocks, and the Modern War Institute, where Dr. Venable has also written extensively about airpower and the current United States Air Force. Her current research centers on intersections between theory and pre-war thinking and the application of airpower in combat.

Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)

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