Toxic Leadership In The Military

Toxic leadership is the biggest contributor to low morale, undo stress, and most unfortunately the loss of great soldiers. While many of us have experienced toxic leadership at least once in our careers, undoubtedly we have also known great soldiers that have simply had enough and chosen to separate from the Army because of it. To me this is one of the worst effects that toxic leadership can have because it takes guys with an abundance of experience that could have been excellent Commanders and CSMs, and subsequently removed them from the pool.

So why wouldn’t Soldiers just wait it out? I think it has a lot to do with a loss of faith with the Army system. When you can have a leader that is so obviously poisonous