All the Ships that Never Sank: Selection Bias in the Study of Military Innovation

• In Event: Is the military innovation and adaptation research program broken? Theoretical critiques and new conceptual frameworks

Brief Overview

Severe selection bias undermines the military innovation literature and limits theory extensibility. After surveying the literature and demonstrating the sources of selection bias, I introduce a new case selection methodology and a new way forward.

Author

• Jonathan D Askonas, Catholic University of America