Mate you can differ all you want, but Military has a set method of surveillance and monitoring that is in place for all ranks that go abroad for UN Missions, Training, courses, command, as instructors even. This is done because Pakistan Military is trained to fight all types of missions with any kind of ally. Training at home or abroad is also a testament to it. Every contingent of troops sent abroad has an Intel section sent along with them. That Intel section is responsible for daily reporting of movement, contacts, calls, conversations etc of all personnel in that contingent. The officers sent individually (with or w/o families) for courses, training, education etc have another form of surveillance conducted on them in that country by Pak Intel wings. This is also true for engineers, scientists, research fellows etc from Pakistan Govts research Departments. No one is safe. What you are suggesting is counter productive and a natural reaction since you and other members here are not aware of many processes which goes in intel depts and military by itself.
As for patriotic duty, If i am replying so many posts, maybe i know a thing or two.
We have officers and cadets who excel abroad, because they are fine gentlemen and have been trained by the best. This section is filled with achievements of our officers and cadets serving abroad.
I have always criticized this 'suckling of the foreign teat' and will continue to do so. Our soldiers need foreign training because we do not have a culture of creativity, research, and independent thinking. We are net consumers of knowledge, we don't generate new knowledge. Hence, we are forever subservient to knowledge economies that generate new knowledge. This is a problem of mindset in our top brass. The inability to continually modernize without foreign assistance is the hallmark of mediocrity. In any organization, mediocrity breeds because of leaders. There are a couple of ways such leaders perpetrate their crime:
1. Highly intelligent leaders, who need intellectually stunted yesmen to do their bidding. These leaders favor personal gratification over the organization's success. Their petty, selfish concerns sit above the organization's long term interests. These leaders are unable to create agile, high performance, world beating organizations that produce new knowledge, set new precedents, and lead the industry through innovation.
2. Mediocre leaders, who recognize the need for intelligent people, and keep them pressurized and overworked so intelligent workers never achieve leadership roles. These organizations basically suck the blood out of talent, and when they are done, they show the door to their workers.
3. Mediocre leaders, who recognize the need for intelligent people, and create a space for them to achieve their goals, but still never achieve leadership. These leaders are able to sustain their market share. Their products don't set benchmarks for creativity, yet hold their own against competition. Such organizations are not slated for greatness and leadership.
The other cases of highly intelligent leaders who nurture highly intelligent talent, and mediocre leaders nurturing mediocre talent are self-evident.
I place Pak Army as mediocre leaders with a servile attitude, who are intellectually subservient to foreign knowledge economies, and look up to them in order to learn new ideas and knowledge. They create a space for talent to excel, but this excellence is limited to reproducing the knowledge acquired from knowledge economies. And herein lies the root cause of Pakistan's backwardness. Until and unless we rise to the level where we generate new knowledge, we shall remain servants, poor, and get ridiculed by those who control us through these mediocre leaders.
