“You must be able to underwrite the honest mistakes of your subordinates if you wish to develop their initiative and experience.” “Warfare is mental, not physical.” General Bruce Cooper Clarke (-1988) US Army General who served in WW1, WW2 (awarded three Silver Stars) and the Korean War. Graduated from West Point as an engineer in… Read More
“…leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [and] …leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.” [sound familiar?] John F. Kennedy… Read More
Research Paper Title German Officer Education in the Interwar Years. Abstract This dissertation is trying to discover some of the reasons why the Germans were so successful on the tactical level during World War II. Several factors contributed to this. The dissertation however, will limit itself to focussing on the human side of it. To be… Read More
“To be a successful commander, one must combine the qualities of leadership with a knowledge of his profession. Either without the other is notof much avail.” Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, “Thesis on Command”U.S. Naval War College, 11 September 1926
Research Paper Title Future of Officer Career Development System in the Slovenian Armed Forces. Abstract The thesis describes the Officer Career Development (OCD) system in the SAF for the first ten years of the officer’s career. The main purpose of the paper is to develop a proposed OCD system for the SAF, which will provide a certain… Read More
Research Paper Title Management Education and Challenges for Staff Development. Abstract The way in which information is shared and managed in the current information society has changed. Managers find it a complex task to deal effectively with the information and communication technology in the digital work environment. Yet they play an important role in effectively implementing changed… Read More
Research Paper Title Effectiveness of instructor behaviours and their relationship to leadership. Background This study analysed qualitatively the nature of instructor behaviours and their relationship to leadership. Methods The Critical Incident Technique was used to collect effective and ineffective incidents of instructor behaviour in military training from both instructors’ and trainees’ perspectives (total incidents ¼ 1150, effective ¼… Read More
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