Considerations on the Leader and Leadership in the Military Profession

Nowadays armies have modern means of fighting - weapons and military equipment, but the humans continue to be one of their most important components. To be followed by our subordinates, to inspire them into higher levels of military teamwork, to lead them in fight and to be effectively and efficient on the modern battlefield there are crucial things for military organization, but these all don’t come easy and naturally for military personnel. Therefore, military that is in charge must be, know, and, do, things that are acquired through education, study, personal experiences and military training. So, the military leaders have had to continue adapt throughout the human history his acts of leading (military leadership) based on either philosophy or practice or, better, on both philosophy and practice, in concert with a complex and changing environment that has permanently required new views, conceptions and approaches, new attitudes, new skills and differing perspectives of the military who were and are in charge. On short, we consider that developing military leaders and leadership are critical issues for the modern military organization and, implicitly, for military profession. In this paper, we use a synthetic approach of some considerable issues for modern military organization and profession of the army – the military leader and military leadership.