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Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick., Graduate School - New Brunswick.

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Learning about military effectiveness: Examining theories of learning during the Russo-Japanese War.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Learning about military effectiveness: Examining theories of learning during the Russo-Japanese War./
Author:	Vacca, William Alexander.
Description:	466 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jack S. Levy.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-03A.
Subject:	Military Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3350147
ISBN:	9781109072471

Learning about military effectiveness: Examining theories of learning during the Russo-Japanese War.
Vacca, William Alexander.

Learning about military effectiveness: Examining theories of learning during the Russo-Japanese War. - 466 p.

Adviser: Jack S. Levy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2009.

This dissertation tests the relative effectiveness of the Bayesian rational choice, bureaucratic interest, cognitive psychological, and ideational research programs in explaining how observers draw conclusions from the experience of others. I examine the conclusions reached by members of the armies and navies of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States about the effectiveness of certain military and naval tactics and armaments during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Drawing on the primary source material generated by accredited observers, official military histories, and professional publications of military officers, and employing learning hypotheses generated by the four contending research programs, I am able to draw conclusions about the use of these research programs for scholars seeking to understand the process and outcomes of vicarious learning.

ISBN: 9781109072471Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017606
Military Studies.

Learning about military effectiveness: Examining theories of learning during the Russo-Japanese War.
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520 $a This dissertation tests the relative effectiveness of the Bayesian rational choice, bureaucratic interest, cognitive psychological, and ideational research programs in explaining how observers draw conclusions from the experience of others. I examine the conclusions reached by members of the armies and navies of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States about the effectiveness of certain military and naval tactics and armaments during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Drawing on the primary source material generated by accredited observers, official military histories, and professional publications of military officers, and employing learning hypotheses generated by the four contending research programs, I am able to draw conclusions about the use of these research programs for scholars seeking to understand the process and outcomes of vicarious learning.
520 $a The results of these tests indicate that the ideational research program, which emphasizes culturally constructed and shared heuristics and ideas, is able to explain the most variation in the conclusions drawn by these observers and commentators about the Russo-Japanese War. The bureaucratic interest based approach does an extremely poor job of explaining these same outcomes. Both the Bayesian rational choice and the cognitive psychological model show mixed success. While they are each able to demonstrate some explanatory value, they fail to predict important aspects of the learning experience. The ideational approach explains all that is explained by the other research programs, as well as much that the other approaches left unexplained.
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