Military Professional Training and Development of Skills in Cadets from Logistics Specializations

Abstract

The social, political and economical changes in the Bulgarian society leave their traces in all spheres of the public life, in particular of the military education system. The implemented in the Republic of Bulgaria reforms assign to the Vasil Levski National Military University the task to train logistic officers at a high level of professional skills, who are ready to solve efficiently the assigned tasks.

The specific character of the logistic officers activity sets increased requirements to their management skills and abilities and to the management effectiveness, related to them. In connection with this the disclosure of holdings of cadets from different specializations logistics management, organizational and communication skills is the topical trend to disclose ways to improve military professional training and formation of readiness for a timely and quality management decision making.

The research target is the military professional training of the future logistic officers, while the developed in the course of their military professional training management skills, management, organizational and communication skills of the future logistic officers are subject of research. The research aim is to analyze the acquired in the course of the military professional training of the future logistic officers management skills and abilities and the related to them management effectiveness. The methods of research are: a theoretical analysis of the military education literature is used during the research; also the methods of inquiry, statistics, substantiation and general conclusion.

Keywords: military training, training of cadets

JEL Classification: I21;I29