The Impact of Technological Changes on the Development of Military Leaders

Abstract

The article focuses on possible directions of development of leadership in future military operations. It describes the principles of leading people and the functions of a leader-commander necessary for fulfilling tasks. However, as the rate of automation and robotization in leading military operations increases, the role of a leader-commander changes. Communication and information technologies allow directing military operations in a larger area with a higher degree of independence of the individual elements of the deployed forces as well as the decentralization of command and control. The increasingly more common use of autonomous systems brings a sizable challenge in the shape of commanding robots into the leadership process.