New Times for Military Professionalism: Rethinking Core Competencies and Dynamic Capabilities

Abstract

This chapter examines the future of military professionalism in the context of technological advances, social evolutions, and capacity-building requirements. New applications have arisen from technological innovation, such as human-machine interface, artificial intelligence, and drones, with significant effects on the organization of military operations. But military professionalism is also bound by values and traditions that also provide capabilities to accomplish future missions. This study seeks to explain how military organizations can adapt to change and become more agile to better cope with the unpredictability of the future political context and social evolutions, especially in the domain of human resources management with the coexistence of varying technological dexterity. A review of properties underpinning adaptive and agile organizations is proposed here as a new framework to effectively cope with multidimensional challenges and resource base reconfiguration.