Војно дело (Jan 2016)
Approach to creating modern logistics officers
Abstract
Effective and efficient defense system includes modernly organized, equipped and properly designed logistics system that provides adequate logistic support. The development of this system is a prerequisite of survival, and involves also the adaptation to changes in the environment and improvement of its own position in the region. The essence of development are innovations, and the innovations in the area of the creation and development of personnel are the key to development. The personnel is the only aware resource of the defense and the exponent of the development. Creation and development of personnel, logistic in particular, must be harmonized with the concept of long-term development of the defense system, the development of higher education at the national level, necessities of practice, requirements of the time period, contemporary trends in education and educational techniques and technologies. The program of the logistics personnel’ education should be a harmonious combination of methodological trends in higher education, information technologies, and modern teaching subject-matter. The designing of the logistics personnel profile should take into account the requirements of a wide range of jobs, the requirements of the exponents of logistics personnel development, educational and scientific institutions, users of logistic services and products, and other important “stakeholders”. In the education of logistics officers, the personnel should be seen in terms of their life cycle, the flow of movement in space and time, and the service of the education and upbringing through which they are created. In the creation of logistics personnel, through the process of education and upbringing, certain skills are reached, attitudes formed, certain knowledge, skills and habits acquired, and all three components of the military profession strengthened: physical, intellectual, and moral ones. The practice requires certain paradigms related to the process of logistics personnel’s creation and development to be critically analyzed and gradually abandoned.
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