A thread on #AgnipathRecruitmentScheme
1. Here is my 'deliberated' opinion. What #Demonitization was to d economy, this would b to d armed forces & India's military preparedness. Here r my reasons:
One: World has moved towards leaner & meaner armed forces. Even within infantry
1. Here is my 'deliberated' opinion. What #Demonitization was to d economy, this would b to d armed forces & India's military preparedness. Here r my reasons:
One: World has moved towards leaner & meaner armed forces. Even within infantry
2. the concept has been of a soldier as a system, a highly trained, tech-savvy, multi-tasking operator. In conventional warfighting, technology is increasingly eliminating d idea of close combat. I am not even talking about PLA's informatised & intelligentised war, which hardly
3. needs humans in direct combat. So compromising on quality for quantity militates against all principles of modern, tech-intensive warfare. It seems tht MoD envisages creating a human line of actual control behind the one tht evaporated in thin air after May 2020. Whatever be
4. the intend, this is akin to treating human lives as fodder. It's inhuman, ill-thought through and disastrous.
Two: A vast majority of young men who join the Indian Army, risking life and limb, do so for job security & in case they die, for security of their families, not...
Two: A vast majority of young men who join the Indian Army, risking life and limb, do so for job security & in case they die, for security of their families, not...
5. for the motherland. That sentiment is cultivated during training, because d motherland for a villager is the village, not the amorphous notion of a nation, which is a theoretical concept. To expect this person to risk life and limb for merely a temporary experience is...
6. Foolish.
Three: The SSC concept, both for men and women only led to dissatisfaction and disillusionment. The male SSC officers demanded extension of tenure and women fought & won the right to permanent commission. No one wants to commit to a job which can give better but...
Three: The SSC concept, both for men and women only led to dissatisfaction and disillusionment. The male SSC officers demanded extension of tenure and women fought & won the right to permanent commission. No one wants to commit to a job which can give better but...
7. does not because of the terms of their recruitment.
Four: Even today, d armed forces are struggling to ensure lateral induction of their personnel in the civil domain. Most end up with jobs much below their expectations and abilities. D CAPFs/ CPMFs are already struggling...
Four: Even today, d armed forces are struggling to ensure lateral induction of their personnel in the civil domain. Most end up with jobs much below their expectations and abilities. D CAPFs/ CPMFs are already struggling...
8. with unhappy personnel because of extremely slow promotions & stagnant career prospects. They need their own reforms, instead of being saddled with decommissioned #Agniveers, who will come wth diff mindset, training & experience.
Five: #AgnipathRecruitmentScheme won't...
Five: #AgnipathRecruitmentScheme won't...
9. solve the unemployment problem, it will only militarise it. The vast number of semi-trained, semi-literate, decommissioned people, bitter because of their experience, would b floating in d society seeking a second career in their 20s.
D only advantage of this idea would be...
D only advantage of this idea would be...
10. Savings on money. But then what can be expected when all policymaking in India is driven by oligarchs like Messrs Double A.
Ends.
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