Two historical illustrations provide an analysis of leadership through the lens of complexity leadership theory. This monograph explores how the theory of complexity leadership offers a compromise that bridges the gap between the stability commonly associated with the traditional top-down, centralized military structure, and the principles of self-organization, decentralization, and bottom-up refinement associated with complex adaptive systems. Teams must provide the innovative and creative solutions formerly left to the individual leader. Given the hierarchical structure of military organizations and the complex environment described above leaders must now be able to generate teams that can thrive in the chaos and ambiguity associated with war. This provides compelling justification that traditional leadership models used to prepare military organizations to succeed in armed conflict are becoming less useful. The character of armed conflict continues to change at an alarming rate due to extremist ideologies, the ​reassertion of global hegemons, climate change, cyber conflict, infectious disease, and technological advances.
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