MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND LEADERS
MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND LEADERS

Summary/Abstract: In his book “Narren, Nulpen, Niedermacher” (original title: “Military Blunders”), which describes the mishaps of incompetent military commanders, Geoffrey Regan (1998: 7) writes: “There are just as many incompetent physicians, dentists, accountants, lawyers, teachers and engineers as there are incapable military commanders. For its potential impact on society, however, military failure often has much more serious consequences. In civil aviation, a pilot might cause the death of several hundreds of people, while the decision of a general might kill tens of thousands of people.” Given that the actions taken by military commanders are highly significant, one would expect that a great deal of research would have already been done on this topic. Surprisingly, though, in Germany this is only true to a limited extent. German history papers, particularly those published by the Military History Research Institute of the Bundeswehr, deal with military commanders and (war-time) events from a purely historical perspective.

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