From dust jacket: From twenty years' research and teaching of future officers, West Point's specialists share here--for enlisted men, officers, and those preparing for leader roles in all of the services--the unique problems, skills, and knowledge in military leadership today. This blend of research from the behavioral sciences, managerial methods, and wisdom from practical experience stimulates understanding of the concepts, processes, and techniques involved in influencing and directing others within the special situation of the armed services. Insights, scientific data, and analyses of interpersonal relations from many disciplines are organized to describe an integrated concept of leadership-- the qualities, styles, skills of the leader, including interpersonal communication, management functions, the planning process, organizing, coordinating, direction, controlling. Then attention shifts to the leader's followers organized as a group--group formation, processes, esprit, motivation, discipline, senior-subordinate relations, counseling. The final look is at the situations which the military leader must face--including actual case studies showing good and poor leader performance.

A usable concept of leadership -- Leadership behavior and styles -- Moral aspects of leadership -- Leader selection and development -- Interpersonal communication -- Military management -- Planning -- Organizing and coordinating -- Directing and controlling -- The individual and the group -- Group solidarity and esprit -- Motivation and morale -- Discipline -- Senior-subordinate relations -- Counseling -- The soldier in American society -- Leadership in training -- Combat leadership -- The military advisor -- Situational studies.