Cadre

Cadre may refer to:

Cadre (military)

The cadre (UK /ˈkɑːdər/ or US /ˈkædreɪ/) is the complement of commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of a military unit responsible for training the rest of the unit. The cadre may be the permanent skeleton establishment of a unit, around which the full unit can be built if needed, or in countries which have conscription, the permanent staff of a regiment who train the conscripts assigned to it. The term comes from the French expression en cadre, with the same meaning.

In the United States military, a cadre is a group or member of a group of leaders, especially in units that conduct formal training schools. In United States Army jargon, the word is both singular and plural. At the United States Military Academy, the upper class cadets who conduct Basic Cadet Training for incoming freshmen are called the cadre.

In the British Armed Forces, a cadre is a group of instructors, or a unit that trains potential instructors or non-commissioned officers (NCOs), in which case it usually also includes the trainees themselves (e.g., the Mountain Leader Training Cadre of the Royal Marines).

Cadre (politics)

A cadre (UK /ˈkɑːdər/ or US /ˈkædreɪ/) policy is a political mechanism that falls under two categories:

Cadre deployment: The appointment by a government's governing party of a loyalist to an institution, as a means of circumventing public reporting lines and bringing that institution under the control of the party, as opposed to the state. It involves the creation of a parallel power structure to the constitution, so that party members answer first to the party and second to the public. In turn, that party advances its interests ahead of those of the public.

Cadre employment: Economic patronage dispensed to individuals, companies and agencies, by the government, not on merit but on the basis they enjoy some political connection to the governing party.

Every level of government often acts to reward loyalists with tenders and government business. This form of tenderpreneurship is commonly practised by the African National Congress government. Together with Black Economic Empowerment policies, cadre policy is used to address the injustices of the former apartheid system in South Africa.