Restructuring of the Armed Forces

Abstract

It is likely that, at the end of their restructuring process, the postmodern military organizations of the future will resemble what in the HRM literature are known as networks of organized anarchies, i.e., organizations with permeable boundaries and flat hierarchies given to decentralized decision making (hence a reduction of the size of headquarters) and with a greater capacity to tolerate ambiguity. Finally, as far as European armed forces are concerned, the restructuring process must go hand in hand, if these organizations want to be more efficient, with a greater integration and cooperation of armed forces at the European level. Only greater integration and cooperation will make possible a greater degree of task specialization among European armed forces and therefore allow to solve the present ajustment problems given the present and future budgetary constraints facing all European governments.