Leadership in Extreme Situations by Michael Holenweger Michael Karl Jager & Franz Kernic

Author:Michael Holenweger, Michael Karl Jager & Franz Kernic
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The new circumstances of the war, then, opened up possibilities for commanders in terms of an emerging organizational terrain.

5 Emergent Environments, New Terrain

We now move to how leadership at the tactical level is linked to changes in the social and cultural circumstances of Israel taking place over the past decades. It is crucial to take these wider environments into account since they shape the very terrain in which tactical leaders navigate. One of the most significant developments in regard to contemporary warfare waged by the industrial democracies is the emphasis on casualty aversion (Ben-Ari 2005). While we came across examples of commanders’ awareness of the danger of casualties to Lebanese civilians, more often we encountered instances of casualty aversion on the Israeli side. A paratroop platoon commander:Even the act of seeking engagement with the enemy is problematic because everyone was afraid that a soldier would be kidnapped. So they created all sorts of procedures to protect the soldiers. And the whole element of seeking active engagement, they in effect took it away. OK, ‘Don’t go near the fence so that there won’t be a kidnapping’; as if it’s so simple.

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