Significance of Metacognitive Variables on Officer Selection

Abstract

Introduction The events which have occurred on the international geopolitical scene in the last years have determined the need of a change of the principles which the national defense policy were traditionally inspired to. The end of the so-called "cold war" in particular, making an aggression from the East very improbable and consequently breaking up the bonds imposed by the culture of the opposite blocks, enabled the emerging of multiple crisis on a regional and local level in opposition to the regained global safety. In this scene, the new defense concept, which has progressively asserted itself has abandoned the traditional static nature in favor of a more dynamic concept, mainly projected out of the national borders and engaged in safe-guarding the stability of international relationships and in the settlement of the ethnical and religious disputes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010367

Entities

People

  • Alberto M. Autore
  • Carlo Serusi

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Cognition
  • Cold War
  • Contrast
  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Perception
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Personnel Selection
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychology
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thinking

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Strategic Security Studies