Infantry OCS evaluations and combat performance.

Narcissism and emergent leadership in military cadets

“…In the Katter & Holmen (1954) study, peer ratings of leadership out-performed all other measures in the prediction of combat performance in the Korean War (r = .34). For comparison, ratings by superiors were only weakly correlated with performance in combat (r = .12).…”

“…To illustrate, Yongling, Levine, Mocharmuk, & Weston (1977) reviewed studies conducted in the United States Army that focused on predicting the combat behavior of the single soldier. Of 31 studies, five were concerned with the prediction of leadership behavior, and one of them, a study conducted by Katter & Holmen (1954), considered peer evaluations of leadership as predictors of real combat performance.…”