Training Junior Officers in the Art of Strategic Leadership

Abstract

After review of a recent Army War College study on strategic leadership competencies and after reading about junior officer experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom I perceived a general ignorance across the military as to the importance of junior officers development. All leaders need grounding in strategic leader competencies before conducting a mission. I propose that our training and leader developers integrate several strategic leader competencies into junior officer development. I will identify which strategic leader competencies are important to teach junior leaders and why when the Army should train junior leaders in the strategic competencies and how the Army should go about providing the strategic competency training. This project includes data from a number of studies focusing primarily on the commissioned officer population.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 18, 2005
Accession Number
ADA432163

Entities

People

  • Valerie L. Border

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Army Training
  • Cold War
  • Distance Learning
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Instructors
  • Iraqi-War
  • Leadership
  • Military Education
  • Military History
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • Students
  • Training
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.