How important is wisdom in today's military leadership?

Leadership Wisdom, would be more of a philosophy, encompassing not only leadership traits and principles, but the experience of the leader. Wisdom is subjective.

Wisdom has to be sought after. Age alone does not bring wisdom although a wise person who ages is experienced and wise which is a valuable combination. Wisdom is essential for good leadership.

Some great responses have thus been provided so I'll add a snippet to them:
When God was asked by Solomon that he may be given wisdom that attribute was quickly provided, telling me that wisdom is high among the attributes desired in life.

But despite all his wisdom, Solomon allowed the pleasures of man to bring him down.

My opinion on wisdom in the military today is that it is wise to just deal with all of the politically correct platitudes that are what in my opinion, is making todays military a shadow of what it had been if former years. The problem with wisdom in the military today is that in order to utilize it you have to be able to override common sense, in many cases due to the current politically correct atmosphere. It's not all bad, however I do believe political correctness does cut down on the fighting effectiveness of today's military.

I think typically wisdom comes with age and experience, but I think "younger" leaders/folks can have a great intuition and willingness to gain that wisdom and to learn from their experiences.

Interesting question. Usually, one associates wisdom with experience. I'm wiser than my 19 yr old self. Not smarter, but wiser. Not sure you can emphasize wisdom in lieutenants. Some are sharp folks but wisdom? I hope by the time officers are at the O4-O5 level, they are 'wise'.

It came with time for me Sir. And, a lot of lesson learning.

I believe wisdom is an inherent trait in true leaders. But, a huge but, it must be developed along the path of life. Each experience is a chance to learn and to become wizened as to how to resolve problems. It is up to each person to utilize the wisdom or not. Wise people learn to take advantage of each opportunity to learn from experience. These are the great leaders.

I think the better question is how often do we see wisdom used in todays military leadership?

I reported back after a TDRL(Temp Disab Ret. leave and missed out on a deploy and got saddled with several Reserve Airmen to help me provide sustenance to those using the Airmen’s Dining Facility.... This was my chance to shine and show these Airmen what I learned at the Comm college I went to., I took what what we had
and between us we put out some really nice lunches and dinners.. depending if we worked lunch or dinner shift..
After 4 days of busting tail putting out quality meals, there was a meeting.. a few times it seems a wrench was thrown in to make it harder.. (had the menu switched to make it easier on the less experienced shift.. we both had inexperienced Airmen to put the meals out with.. it was in how did the production.. ). I had come in that night before my lunch shift and done some work..,to make it less laborsome on us.. I cooked the Roasts and cooled them
And all we had to do is slice and pan them and do a few other things.. I’m not saying there was a conspiracy, but i believe there may have been.. between the mid shift crew and the other shift leader and the Assist. Dining Hall Facility Supervisor.. They were buds from before I got there ..
and I would deal with it.. I went in and found the menu switched.. not a prob.,
We would handle it. And we did., They
Got our beef and we got their Roast chicken quarters.. We cooked them halfway in the big kettles as half chickens.. then grilled them .. we produced gravy out of the stock
Before panning we quarter and panned them We did roasted potatoes and veggies in the steamer.. We also had another entree switch they did on us and I changed that to the grill( meatloaf became sslibury steak... WE still pulled off Aus jus style sauce with mushrooms for the Salisburys.. I kinda bit the bullet about switching meatloaf to Salisbury and since it came out good.. (I had a trump card on them.. they switched my meal on me, so I shouldn’t catch heck for Changing the meatloaf.. we prob’ly could of done better leaving the ground beef as meat loaf... I didn’t have enough oven space.. . I had all them Reserve cooks and made use of them.. (and I still had some that were off duty . To work the following days.., I definitely got tested ..
and after it actually felt good to be able to show what I knew. Much credit went to the Airmen and NCOs that worked with me.. we got compliments and criticism..
some were half-n-half... the criticisms were why was the menu switched..? I left the explanation to the big guy.. what he said was satisfactory... from those I read..