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Navigating Through a VUCA World by Using an Educational Compass
Reflection
Abstract: The security challenges of the 21st century can hardly be underestimated. These challenges are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, with a tendency to become even more complicated and diverse. Nowadays, military leaders are challenged to solve problems within these four main security challenges. While facing such problems, military leaders are often stretched beyond their capabilities because current military education does not adequately provide them the knowledge and skills they need to deal with these problems. The education of military leaders is typically characterized by uniformity and pre-planned drills as preparation for the execution of military operations. In order to prepare officers to best deal with the security challenges of today and near future, a growing number of military academies recognize the need to address more than just military skills in their educational programs. The purpose of this article is to propose an easily applicable educational model, which enables military academies to effectively and efficiently prepare their future military leaders to best deal with security challenges of the 21st century.