Professional Military Education: Making of the 21st Century Warrior

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. War, Warfare and Professional Military Education: The Contextual Connect. 2. Empowering Future Military Leaders with Strategic Thinking and Communication Skills. 3. Intellectual Over match: A Strategic Imperative for Military Success. 4. Developing Critical Thinking and Creativity Skills as a Leadership Attribute. 5. Technology and Training Synergy in the Future Battlespace. 6. Artificial Intelligence Enabled Smart PME for Smart Warfighting. 7. Pme for the Information Warfare Age Warriors. 8. Joint Professional Military Education: The Path to Military Success. 9. The Role of Civil-Military Fusion in Shaping Professional Military Education. 10. Global Scan of Pme Strategies and Best Practices. 11. Indian Ancient Military Education Culture and Indianisation of Military Thought. 12. Appraisal of Indian Pme: Making it Good to Great. 13. Adopting a New Model of Pme: Policy Contours and Construct. 14. The Way Ahead: Summary of Policy Recommendations. Appendix A: Ai in Strategic Systems. Vrinda Kapoor and Vinayak Dalmia. Appendix B: Online Google form Survey: An Overview.

Warfare is fast outpacing the Warfighter. This gap has to be bridged through a transformed PME. Professional Military Education Making for the 21st Century Warrior is an objective introspection of the military education system which ruthlessly identifies the shortcomings and comprehensively suggests solutions for fixing the roots and bridging the gap.

The book addresses the challenges to prevail in the struggle between ‘military managing the change and change managing the military’. It builds on new ideas, a reoriented PME model, realigned focus and reformed structures. It seeks to overcome the legacy cultural barriers, bureaucratic lethargy, civil-military silos and conformist mindsets.

The suggested PME model envisions developing future joint war fighters with a scientific temper, adept in the art and science of warfare, who think strategically, are empowered intellectually and can creatively apply military power to achieve combat over match under disruptive conditions of uncertainty and an accelerated rate of change in a multi-domain operational environment.

The research by the author is essentially focused on the Indian PME, yet will be of immense value to militaries across the globe to meet the challenges of the 21st century.