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Professional Military Leadership Development from the Perspective of National Resilience
Professional Military Leadership Development from the Perspective of National Resilience

Author(s): Aura Codreanu, Cezar Vasilescu
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, Management and complex organizations
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: military professionalism; leadership development; national resilience;

Summary/Abstract: Leadership, along with discipline, ethics, organisational culture and specific socialisation practices, is one of the most important pillars (Brown, Treviño,2006) of the military profession. As such, professional military leadership is one of the key aspects emphasised at the strategic level. One prominent example in this respect is the Romanian Military Strategy of 2021 (2021, pp. 3-4) which views it as one of the means of securing organisational and national resilience in a volatile, complex, and uncertain environment. Furthermore, as the 2020-2024 Romanian National Defence Strategy states (2020, p. 32), resilience is one of the key areas targeted by the NATO-EU cooperation agenda to which Romania pledges to contribute. Following the strategic acknowledgement that professional military leadership is needed in order to meet future challenges in the defence and security field, the current article discusses the ways and means by which professional military leadership development can further the end of securing organisational resilience in the defence and security field, and hence that of consolidating national resilience.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 232-257
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English