Thread by @ColSanjayPande

1. Sir, you combine all or you let them remain separate, question is does military have its ‘mind’ for such big concepts? 1. Three Strike Corps have consumed lacs of crores since raising and the Light Tanks are Eureka moment now. 2. Two front war was alien term till last June.

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2. With numerous Armoured Corps Chiefs and Army Commanders, the Infantry glitterati in Northern and Eastern Command, Retired and on social media, did anyone ever suggest abrogation of 370? Ways to end Insurgency? Military’s macro and micro understanding is extremely limited.

3. ‘Vision’ needs to be backed by conviction. If you have vision and conviction, you will certainly not have a rank. Army is always about getting next promotion. When complete energy is focused on getting rank, where does vision and conviction go? Military is about ....

4. ... keeping all top vacancies always manned thereby making promotions a perennial process. The most irrelevant get promoted and suddenly grant themselves Gods vision into National Security forgetting that they were mediocre and helped mediocre rise. How does this help?

5. Look around in Social Media. The veterans who held ‘relevant’ positions simply don’t express their views. The mediocrity of these senior ranks is on public display. Theatre Commands require vision. How do they get one now which wasn’t there for their entire service?

6. This is precisely what #RelevantlyIrrelevant theory propounded. Organisations create and control valves through which only the preferred groups rise who in turn further this process by getting their preferred. Result? Mediocrity and irrelevance coupled with arrogance.

7/7 Do we search brilliance within mediocre? Of the thirty Retired Generals and Lt Gens on Twitter, just 5% (as I always say) are actually worth holding the rank they do. Say 2 of them? They must write extensively on Theatre Commands. Just an odd one or two writes. Rest...rest.