The Art of Scaling

Foreword – Maarten Schurink and General Onno Eichelsheim;
Introduction – Huib Zijderveld, Annelies van Vark, Floribert Baudet, Edwin Dado, René Moelker & Ronald Vuijk;
Part 1 Historical Perspectives;
1. The Dutch state and the Dutch arms industry as incentives for military reforms, standardisation and increasing scales of the Dutch state army and war fleet, 1585-1621 – Michiel de Jong;
2. "If fate should strike us with a new occupation…". Dutch defence preparations, 1946-1949 – Floribert Baudet;
3. The Cold War life jacket: The scalable armed forces of the Netherlands – A historical perspective – Jan Hoffenaar and Daan Theodorus Sanders;
Part 2 Organising Scalability;
4. Upstream scaling of resources for defence from an organisational network perspective – Paul C. van Fenema, Joerg Raab, and Matthijs J.E.M. van Groenendael;
5. Scaling in unpredictable strategic environments: Reflecting on strategic flexibility from an emergent innovation perspective – Robbert Marnix Verhulst;
6. Scalable defence infrastructure: Leveraging Legolisation and industrial, flexible and demountable building for operational flexibility within the Dutch defence – Edwin Dado, Jan Willem Petersen, Sebastiaan Leertouwer, Ruud Moeskops, and Alexander Schmets;
7. The challenge of scaling innovation in the Netherlands armed forces: Integrating technological artifacts in multilayered sociotechnical systems – Eric-Hans Kramer, Guido van Os, and Robbert Marnix Verhulst;
8. Readiness through scalability: Structuring the military for large scale combat operations – Cornelis van Lit; 9. Scalable preparedness: Healthcare initiatives for resilient wartime response – Willem Goes, René Janssen, and Alexander van Oers;
10. The role of mission command in scaling up the armed forces – Kevin van Loon and Stefan Mastenbroek;
Part 3 Enabling Scalability;
11. Creating support for conscription: The dilemma of scaling up human resources – René Moelker and Jörg Noll;
12. Promising strategies for building societal resilience against hybrid warfare – Jeanette de Weert and Mark Levels;
13. Exploring grassroots knowledge production: Towards internal crowdsourcing for military intelligence – Emma van der Meulen and Peter de Werd;
14. Wisdom of crowds: An exploratory case-study on crowdsourcing as a method for intelligence gathering within the Dutch Defence Intelligence and Security Service – Emma van der Meulen;
15. Scaling military education in wartime – Roy de Ruiter;
16. Scalability of NATO armed forces from a financial-economic perspective: A preliminary descriptive account – Marion Bogers, Michelle Hogendoorn, Jacqueline Heeren-Bogers, and Robert Beeres;
17. Growing gains? Financial scalability of the Dutch defence industry by private equity – Erwin Hardeman, Robert Bertrand, Jan van Lieshout, and Robert Beeres;
18. Export controls: A scalable set of instruments to counter threats to national and global security in a changing world – Joop Voetelink; Discussion and Conclusions – Huib Zijderveld, Floribert Baudet and Annelies van Vark; About the Editors; About the Authors;
List of Figures;
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