Leadership and Mission Command in Future Operational Environment

Abstract

Army Leadership has an indisputable significance in the success of armies and certainly, the states. The core mechanism that supports the army is its leaders. Since winning or preventing wars has become a phenomenon, the discussions bring the intriguing issue of leadership competencies an army has to evaluate to better build its decision making structure, and the mission command in which leaders have to consider the factors that they come across in new battle scenarios.  Considering the era that the battlefield technology has reached, the responsibility of the army leader is increased and the competencies that he or she has to possess have become a complex issue. With the concept of mission command and possible scenarios in which leaders have to weigh both the political and economic conditions of an environment; the knowledge, talent, experience and education come forth as the prerequisites. In one of the workshops that The International Conference on Military and Security Studies has organized, Leadership and Mission Command, the leadership features of the officers who are going to serve in unconventional warfare, and the challenges of mission command are discussed in order to lay out the possible solutions to the difficulties that armies may face in future operational areas. The outputs, lessons taken from the experiences, different views and presentations of the participants during the workshop are presented below.

Keywords

• Leadership, Mission Command, Leadership competencies, Future operational environment

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