Junior Officer Leader Development in an Era of Persistent Conflict
Abstract
This paper examines junior officer leader development in an era of persistent conflict dominated by irregular warfare. The three domains of the leader development program; Institutional Operational and Self Development are reviewed and the many resources applied to the operational and institutional domains are identified as well as the need to resource self development as the least resourced leader development domain. This paper recommends that the Army resource self development with time and money enabled by Net-centric Operations. The institutional Army faces many challenges while attempting to accelerate Leader Development and requires that the organization and individual members be adaptive and flexible in response to the environment Our soldiers and leaders must now arrive at the unit prepared to be a functioning member of the organization on day one This paper has reviewed the leader development process and has made specific recommendations to improve the self- development and specifically address the concerns provided by young officers in the current operational environment It calls for the power of Net-centric Operations enabled by time and money to be applied to self development to accelerate leader development in this era of persistent conflict
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 20, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA479013
Entities
People
- Stephen M. Quinn
Organizations
- United States Army War College