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Military Leadership in Heroic and Post-heroic Conditions

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The chapter presents key dimensions of military leadership, as they exist in contemporary military sociological literature. It presents the dichotomy between the Heroic and the Post-Heroic models of military leadership. Later, it will propose a way to bridge the gap between heroic and post-heroic schools of thought relating military leadership. That, by offering to include skills and expertise in the Military Leadership Tool-Box, which originally belong to the school of cultural studies and Sociology of Discourse and most recently been applied to the Sociology of Management. These are crucial to the commanders and leaders in shifting from heroic to post-heroic conditions—what we mark as the most important challenge of contemporary military leadership.

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  1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ariel University, Ariel, 40700, Israel

    Udi Lebel & Uzi Ben-Shalom

  2. Begin-Sadat Center For strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel

    Udi Lebel

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Lebel, U., Ben-Shalom, U. (2018). Military Leadership in Heroic and Post-heroic Conditions. In: Caforio, G., Nuciari, M. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of the Military. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71602-2_24

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