How to Think Like an Officer: Lessons in Learning and Leadership for Soldiers and Citizens

The U.S. military invests heavily in time and resources to train its officers to be leaders in the broadest sense - forming them not only in military art and science (strategy, tactics, command, etc.), but also in humanistic knowledge, character, and values, as well as how to apply this education on a lightning-fast battlefield or within an inertially slow bureaucracy. The military develops its leaders, at the service academies and in ROTC programs, through very specific but also broad and ...