AG Noorani's Article ‘Talkative Generals’ is interesting. He avers, “President Obama's dismissal of General Stanley A. McChrystal from his command in Afghanistan, for speaking to the media in intemperate language, is in the sound tradition of democratic governance”……“It flows from the fundamental principle of civilian supremacy over the military”. He further writes, “even in Communist China, Chairman Mao Zedong pithily prescribed that the party directed the gun”.
No one in the Indian Military ever thinks that ‘democracy is not supreme’. Democracy in India is all set to flourish and thrive with support from all limbs of the Govt. The concern in the Indian CMR is not to ‘disturb the balance’ achieved so far, and also arrest any tendencies simultaneously that may erupt to cause any imbalance. Civil-Military both have a pious role in this.
It is hard to think that at senior levels where strategy, professionalism, and nationalism are expected to be at its peak, we can really lay down any “do’s and don’ts” in very specific terms. Let Us NOT ‘chain’ the minds of the Generals – ultimately to whose advantage! ‘Systems Approach’ is needed. Yes, Civil-Military-Civil Marayada should be maintained jealously.
Dynamism of the democratic model is such that it is self-correcting to a point; let Us call it a ‘CMR Threshold’. It should not be crossed, once crossed the Govt. needs to apply the ‘corrective therapy’ – it is applicable both for Civil and Military.
No one in the Indian Military ever thinks that ‘democracy is not supreme’. Democracy in India is all set to flourish and thrive with support from all limbs of the Govt. The concern in the Indian CMR is not to ‘disturb the balance’ achieved so far, and also arrest any tendencies simultaneously that may erupt to cause any imbalance. Civil-Military both have a pious role in this.
It is hard to think that at senior levels where strategy, professionalism, and nationalism are expected to be at its peak, we can really lay down any “do’s and don’ts” in very specific terms. Let Us NOT ‘chain’ the minds of the Generals – ultimately to whose advantage! ‘Systems Approach’ is needed. Yes, Civil-Military-Civil Marayada should be maintained jealously.
Dynamism of the democratic model is such that it is self-correcting to a point; let Us call it a ‘CMR Threshold’. It should not be crossed, once crossed the Govt. needs to apply the ‘corrective therapy’ – it is applicable both for Civil and Military.
Noorani’s Article records major events in India’s CMR. To that extent it interests the Chair. Pse read the full Article: Talkative Generals of India.
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