ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an essential function that enables strategic, operational and tactical resilience: leadership. Leadership provides: vision, the ability to determine a future with imagination or wisdom, direction and the ability to change direction if necessary, alignment of resources and capabilities, commitment to allow dedication towards a common direction to flourish. In the true spirit of decentralisation, training and education in the German army typically included leadership and management as well as service-specific and combat training. The German manual for leadership states that even divisional commanders should stay close to their troops, maintaining close sensitivity to the front line and thus being credible to front-line troops. In both the German armed forces and those of the French and their Allies, both adaptive and administrative leadership run in concert with each other, providing crucial contributions to the ability to wage war. Adaptive leadership is associated with three properties: Direction, Alignment and Commitment.
