Barry book, The Sources of Military Doctrine, is considered to have kicked off the field of military innovation studies. While historians have made contributions to the field, it is the political scientists who have created new models of military innovation, likely because historians avoid the predictive connotations of “model”. This article first reviews the dominant models in the field that rely on the actions and decisions of individuals (as opposed to more diffuse cultural models) and places them in dialogue with each other. Second, it argues that historians should be less leery of “models”, since they create or use implicit models in their own work. Finally, this article proposes that the various models laid out in the first part of the article may be seen as specific cases of a methodology from science and technology studies, “Actor/Network Theory”, which is a promising new tool for analyzing military innovation.

巴里的书，军事学说的渊源，被认为已经开始了军事创新研究领域。尽管历史学家在这一领域做出了贡献，但政治学家却创造了军事创新的新模型，这很可能是因为历史学家回避了“模型”的预测含义。本文首先回顾了该领域的主要模型，这些模型依赖于个人的行动和决定（与更为分散的文化模型相对），并使它们彼此对话。其次，它认为历史学家应该减少对“模型”的警惕，因为他们在自己的工作中创建或使用隐式模型。最后，本文建议，可以将本文第一部分中列出的各种模型视为科学技术研究方法（“参与者/网络理论”）的特定案例，