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Article: The way the military leaders think: looking into the past.
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- Military Thought
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Any state, and its military-political leaders in the first place, are concerned, first and foremost, with building up a highly professional officer corps, especially the part involved in operational and strategic command. This is one of the tasks of military psychology and pedagogics that are involved in creating, preserving, and developing certain personal traits in the officers. Operational thinking, a sum-total of certain intellectual characteristics indispensable for any military leader involved in operational command, is responsible for the best results of professional activities in the military sphere. Many prominent military figures and theoreticians devoted a lot ...