Eitan Shamir

 

BIO

Dr. Eitan Shamir is currently with the Ministry of Strategic Affairs at the Office of the Israeli Prime Minister. He is also a Research Fellow with the BESA Center at Bar Ilan University and formerly a Senior Fellow at the Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies (CIMS). His research interest and publications focus on topics such as command and leadership, sources of military change and military culture. He is the author of Transforming Command: The Pursuit of Mission Command in the US, UK and Israeli Armies (Stanford UP, 2011). Eitan has taught at the IDF Staff & Command College, IDF Operational Art Course, and the IDF Junior Officers program at Bar Ilan University. He was also working internationally as a management consultant with firms such as PwC and KPMG Consulting, focusing on strategic transformations and leadership development. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

PUBLICATIONS

(abridged list)

 

Books

Transforming Command: The Pursuit of Mission Command in the US, UK and Israeli Armies, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011) 

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Under Review: “From Retaliation to Open Bridges: Moshe Dayan's Evolving Approach towards the Population in Counter Insurgency”, Civil Wars.

“Mission Command Between Theory and Practice: The IDF Case”, Defense & Security Analysis, Vol. 27, No.9 (June 2011). Ben Shalom U. & Shamir, Eitan.

“The Long and Winding Road: The US Army Managerial Approach to Command and the Adoption of Auftragstaktik (Mission Command)”, Journal of Strategic StudiesVol. 33, No. 5, (October 2010), 647-674.

Papers Presented in International Conferences

Forthcoming: ‘When did a Big Mac become better than a Falafel?: The Americanization Process of the IDF’, to be presented at the ISA meeting, Montreal March 2011 under the 'The Strategic Consequences of Military Diffusion'.  Chair - Pascal Vennesson, Discussant - Thomas Mahnken

A very Sharp Eye: Moshe Dayan's Patterns of Learning on Counterinsurgencypaper presented in Warrior-Scholars: Connecting Theory and Practice of Counter-Insurgency, IPRI/Oriente Foundation, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Working Seminar, 19 -21, July, 2010.

Mission Command or Mission Impossible, Unified Quest 2010, the US Army Title 10 Future Warfare Study, Leader Development Seminar, Virginia US,3-5 March 2010.

Linking Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Military & Corporate Decision-making Processes, With Dr. Igor Linikov, 12th International C2 Research and Technology Symposium, NY, June 2007.

Support Operations and the “Strategic Corporal": Implications for Military Organization and Culture, Proceedings of "Military Transformations and Peace Support Operations: Current Experience, Future Developments and Possible Implications for the Israeli Palestinian Conflict" June 2007 Jerusalem, sponsored by the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.

MOVE-the Principles of Management in Volatile Environments- with Dr. Hanan Shai, in "Risk Uncertainty and Decision Analysis for Environmental Security", NATO Advanced Research Workshop, April 2007, Lisbon Portugal

The Challenges of Mission Command in LIC Environment, ‘War and the Mind’ IDF International Psychology Conference, October 2006, Israel

Mission Command and Bitsuism in the Israeli Defence Forces: Complementary or Contradictory in Today’s Counter-Insurgency Campaign? Presented at the 45th Anniversary Biennial International Conference of the Inter University Conference Seminar (IUS), Armed Forces and Society, October 2005, Chicago.

Lectures in Conferences in Israel

Women in Combat Units – Trends in Western Militaries,paper presented at the Women and Israeli National Security, BESA Center with the Center for International Communication, Bar Ilan University, November 2010.

Command and Control and the Unresolved Tension between Centralization and Decentralization, in the Command and Control Conference Ground Forces Command IDF, June 2010.

The Impact of the National Way of War and its Impact on Command and Control, Presented at the IDF Staff and Command College Conference, May 2010.

The Rise and Fall of the German Auftragstaktik in World War Two, Conference Commemorating Seventy Years for World War Two, Bar Ilan University, November 2009.

Mission Command in the IDF, Reality or Illusion? Leadership in the IDF Conference in the Memory of Major Eitan Balachsan, Tel Hai College, June 2008.