Transnational determinants of military doctrine (Germany, Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain, Israel)

Military doctrine forms an important component of military organization, and military organizations learn doctrine from one another by engaging in collaboration. Through collaboration, they share tacit knowledge, which is necessary to the development and execution of military doctrine. An organization's doctrine will more closely resemble that of its collaborators than that of its enemies. This dissertation demonstrates the importance of collaboration between military organizations in the case of the Reichswehr and the Red Army between 1921 and 1941, the United States Navy and the Royal Navy between 1914 and 1945, and the Israeli Defense Force and the United States Army between 1948 and 2001.