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Title: Is Transformational Military Leadership Out There? An Exploratory Research Study of Military Teams in Action.
Authors: Barfod, Jakob Rømer (AUTHOR), Clifton, Jonathan (AUTHOR)
Source: Armed Forces & Society (Sage Publications Inc.). Jul2026, Vol. 52 Issue 3, p1102-1128. 27p.
Subjects: Transformational leadership, Leadership, Armed forces, Military personnel, Qualitative research, Afghans, Command of troops, Battlefields
Geographic Terms: Afghanistan
Abstract: Transformational leadership has entered the doctrines of many militaries and has become a fundamental aspect of military training and an aspiration in military practice. However, prior research has not sought to analyze the in situ doing of leadership on combat zone service. To address this research gap, using video and audio-recordings of Danish soldiers on combat service in Afghanistan in 2018, this article takes an inductive and qualitative discursive approach to leadership. More specifically, it investigates the extent to which behaviors associated with transformational leadership are observable in the in situ practice of army teams. We present this article as exploratory research which analyzes what is happening in a limited number of cases to come up with tentative conclusions that suggest avenues for further research that may be investigated in more extensive studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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