RETHINKING NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP

Every security failure has a name. It's called bad leadership. From insurgencies that refuse to end, to police forces that have lost public trust, to armies that squander resources and sacrifice lives, the root cause is almost always the same: leaders promoted for the wrong reasons and unprepared for the right ones.

In this landmark work, Dr Charles Omole draws on more than three decades of fieldwork across more than 40 countries to present the most comprehensive new leadership framework ever developed specifically for the security sector. Through the groundbreaking 'Omole Security Leadership Model', he identifies the 16 core traits every police officer, military commander, security and paramilitary professional must master-organised into three non-negotiable pillars.

But this book goes beyond diagnosis. It introduces the Omole Scale: a rigorous, measurable assessment instrument that tells you, with precision, where a leader stands, where they are falling short, and exactly what it takes to earn the next rank. Promotion by seniority is over. This is now the case for merit-based promotion, as a salient cause of insecurity is bad and incompetent leadership.

Rethinking National Security Leadership introduces a globally innovative scale to measure suitability for promotion and leadership in the security sector. Packed with global case studies, evidence-based frameworks, and unflinching honesty about the cost to nations of broken security leadership, this book is what security institutions and political leaders have needed for decades.