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MARITIME FIGHTING POWER
• A feeling of pride and mutual loyalty uniting the members of a
group, an esprit de corps, reinforces unit identity and cements
moral cohesion. Leaders should give due consideration for
professional ethos, self-esteem and tradition.
Motivation

Motivation is a process of stimulating people to accomplish desired
goals. It is mainly a product of training, confidence in equipment,
leadership, management, reward, discipline and mutual respect.
Motivation requires an understanding of both what is going on and
what is required. Motivation and high morale (the will to fight and a
confidence in succeeding) are interdependent.

Leadership

Leadership is of paramount importance in the military related activities
to work as a team in order to obtain desired results. Since military
activities are dealt more often with life and death, there should not be a
slightest possibility of making mistakes and misunderstanding. Hence, it
is compulsory to have proper understanding and cooperation with one
another in the SLN. Leadership is not the preserve of senior officers.
Decisive leadership must be practiced at every level and mandatory for
the success of any operation. The exercise of leadership is related to
individual and group dynamics and the context within which assigned
missions and tasks have to be achieved. While born leaders are rare,
training and experience can develop latent potentials.

Physical Component

The physical component of maritime fighting power provides the means
to fight. This component consists of manpower and training, equipment,
collective performance, sustainability and readiness.

Manpower and Training

‘Manpower’ is the most important constituent of the ‘force structure’,
the other being the ‘military hardware’. As technological and equipment
superiority is never guaranteed, SLN invests in its people to provide

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