I always think that management in the military gets a bad 'rep'. Everyone wants to call themselves leaders, no-one wants to call themselves managers.
Well, £40Bn of public cash does not need to be led, it needs to be managed. The challenge of maintaining airworthiness on aging fleets needs management, not leadership. The need to recruit or sack large numbers needs a managerial decision on how the manpower pipleine is functioning, it doesn't need a charasmatic leader who has no idea of what to do.
IMO, rolling goats such as axing of the Nimrod and Harrier fleets, the carrier and F35 variant debacles, CWS on FJs, and virtually every military cock-up identified by the NAO or the HCDSC over the past 20 years has been caused, not by a lack of leadership, but by a lack of management.
So, while leadership will always be essential when people are involved, here's a lonely 'Huzzah' for good MANAGEMENT!