A Deliberate Process: Developing Strategic Leaders in the United States Air Force

Abstract

The rapidly changing global environment of the twenty-first century requires properly developed strategic leaders. To meet these challenges officers are professionally developed throughout their careers as a result of legislative and related Officer Professional Military Education Policy. Is this sufficient in a contemporary and post Goldwater-Nichols environment? Deliberate education and training is required to properly develop military leaders that have the traits and competencies to deal with the nature of this changing environment. Due to the nature of the United States Air Force mission, the service tends to concentrate training of its officers on technical proficiency in their functional area rather than in broad leadership competencies, especially early in their careers. This project will study the USAF officer development program to determine if there is a deliberate process to develop strategic leaders.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469621

Entities

People

  • Kenneth D. Carlson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Doctrine
  • Military Education
  • Military Force Levels
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Students
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Occupational Health and Safety.