Can We Talk. Transformational Leadership and Communications Technology at theTactical Level of War

摘要

This monograph examines the tension between the science of increasedtechnological control and the art of the demands of command and leadership on the modern battlefield. Specifically, it analyzes the potential for battalion commanders to exercise transformational leadership if they have the ability to monitor the locations and activity of all their subordinates. The monograph is introduced with a brief presentation of the character of combat on the lethal battlefields of the future. It goes on to show that these conditions will require