The Bulletin of National Defence University of Ukraine

The article is designed to highlight new approaches to the leadership of military units in fundamentally different conditions of warfare, based on postmodern leadership, professionalism and creativity. The radical differences in which the military teams of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other components of the State Defense Forces exist and function, after the full-scale invasion of Russia, require new leadership styles. The modern paradigm of military leadership defines and critically evaluates leadership as the interaction of leaders and followers in order to change it, based more on value, emotional, ethical motivation than on coercive influence. The subject of the analysis is the attitude of military leaders to subordinate servicemen, the forecast of the development of these relationships, taking into account the fact that the style of leadership and the nature of relationships directly affect the motivation of servicemen in achieving the results of their activities. The result of the study was the confirmation of the hypothesis that future military leadership establishes new rules of interaction that determine that some phenomena of the organizational culture of military units will never be the same again, but new forms of relationships which improve existing knowledge and the general military-professional environment will develop. The new military leaders will rely on the comprehensive knowledge and innovation offered by the teams. Military leaders will be those who, from among their subordinates, will form independent professionals and create an innovative atmosphere

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