The Three Challenges To Effective Innovation During The Interwar Period

The three most important obstacles to effective innovation during the interwar period is a nation’s understanding of strategic calculations, the influence of technology on military capabilities and governmental and civil influence. During the interwar period each country faced its own set of obstacles to innovations. However, almost every Allied and Axis powers were in some way hindered by the obstacles mentioned above. Strategic calculation affects the way a country focused its effort and synchronized it forces. Technology played a key role in the interwar period. Some countries would capitalize on this while other countries would let opportunities slip away. Additionally, a country’s government and civil involvement could be an obstacle to innovation and directly affect the course each country took during the years between World War I and World War II.
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Understanding these three obstacles will allow leaders to mitigate their affects and fully prepare for future conflicts. A country’s capability to understanding the implications of accurately applying strategic calculation would greatly affect where a country would want to apply innovation and could be extremely cost if the calculations were wrong. The influence of technology impacted the innovations of each country differently. Though there was no shortage of innovation in technology most issues came from the lack of implementing the technology correctly or the lack of capable engineering. The third obstacle to innovation during the interwar period was the internal conflict between bureaucracies in each country with some more severe than others. By the beginning of World War II even with these obstacles to innovation some counties would be able to overcome these while others would lag