Pentagon Concern About ‘Toxic Leaders’
12.21.2013 at 07:06pm
Pentagon Concern About 'Toxic Leaders' by Anna Mulrine, Christian Science Monitor.
The latest bad behavior story coming out of the Air Force – involving the alleged boozy cavorting of the US general in charge of nuclear weapons in the hotel bars of Moscow, no less – has senior military officials again grappling with precisely how the Pentagon might prevent the rise of what it calls "toxic leaders.”
The cause has been taken up by the US military’s top leader, Gen. Martin Dempsey, in recent months.
The fact that the US military has been on a war footing for more than a decade, he told troops during a “town hall” meeting earlier this year, may have created some “bad habits, frankly.”…
