The Military Leadership: does empathy play a new role?

While taking into account the peculiarities of the military profession and the resulting differences between military and civilian leadership, the social actors belonging to the organization in positions of military command would seem to refer, at least in the stressful situations typical of combat, to a concept of leadership by explicitly stating the importance of relationships, of consideration, of reading the feedback coming from their men, as well as empathy, that in fact seems to be closer to that of civilian professions than it was in the past and, above all, more than is still institutionally foreseen in the Italian military organization itself.