IS MY CONSCIENCE DEAD, SHOULDNT SOME GENERALS ASK THIS QUESTION? Why? --------A Brigadier in J&K accused of Sodomy and moved out of Command. ---------A Majors wife in Rajasthan accuses a brigadier for indecent behaviour. ---------Two Major Generals fight over a berth in a Cinema hall. ---------A Bhutanese cadet commits suicide in NDA Khadakvasla and blames senior officers for his suicide. All this within a short span of a fortnight. But this is not the end. Everyday there is some news of Untoward incidents in the armed forces. Isnt it shocking ? Isnt it time to review the selection system for senior ranks , particularly of Brigadiers and Major Generals? Time to take views of environments and subordinates before promoting a person as a Brigadier/ Major General. New COAS has his task cut for himself. Can he measure up to the task? Your guess is as good as mine. Would he be able to keep the arms dealers away? Can he micromanage MOD, where arms mafia rule the roost, who have a big hand in insuring that people with low moralities glide up to generalship so as to do their bidding. After all General VK Singh was not wrong when he alleged that some Lt Gen tried to bribe him. He did question the promotion and appointment of some Generals. Unfortunately, he was accused of personal motives and jeered by the veterans of the army. There will be some even now here, who would like to sweep these incidents under the carpet and say : let us not wash dirty linen in the public. Time to do so now or never, I would say let us wash it, even if in the public. At least there something would be cleaned. How long can we live with the dirt? if we persist with this philosophy, we are only endangering the health of our armed forces. Remember CRISIS IN COMMAND by Richard Gabriel and Paul Savage on US army in Vietnam. Till US ARMYs conduct in Vietnam came into public platform, it had not applied corrections. Time to do this to Indian army. Time to blast its Generalship, who have risen to this position by scratching each others back. There might be 10% exceptions but exceptions confirm the rut Indian army is in.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 03:00:25 +0000
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