TigerOfMysore
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A Pro-PTI position is not anti-Army position. Army's civilian constituency is PTI. That is why this whole saga is so strange.
Conflating the decisions of the Chief or military leadership into the army does not make it the army. The army is an institution to be venerated, the leadership good and bad will come and go. Leader's decisions in warfare and outside of warfare are perfectly legitimate to question and critique especially for civilians. Within the army leadership decisions cannot and should not be questioned outside the structure that they have, in that within the army there are ways to raise objections; those paths should be followed, not outright rebellion. Army's discipline is essential to have it operate in tough times, so no one should ask for a division within the army. Having said that as civilians we should have all the right to question decisions made by the military and her leadership. That does not constitute disparaging the institution, but questioning and critiquing leadership and their acts is perfectly fine. Without effective criticism the Army will quickly go into group-think, and especially given its structure of running orders through without question, if the army does not allow for critical thought from civilians it will degenerate into a weakened institution. Now there should however be no room for people to ask for the Army's destruction or splitting - which as yet I have rarely seen and where i see it I completely ignore it.
Conflating the decisions of the Chief or military leadership into the army does not make it the army. The army is an institution to be venerated, the leadership good and bad will come and go. Leader's decisions in warfare and outside of warfare are perfectly legitimate to question and critique especially for civilians. Within the army leadership decisions cannot and should not be questioned outside the structure that they have, in that within the army there are ways to raise objections; those paths should be followed, not outright rebellion. Army's discipline is essential to have it operate in tough times, so no one should ask for a division within the army. Having said that as civilians we should have all the right to question decisions made by the military and her leadership. That does not constitute disparaging the institution, but questioning and critiquing leadership and their acts is perfectly fine. Without effective criticism the Army will quickly go into group-think, and especially given its structure of running orders through without question, if the army does not allow for critical thought from civilians it will degenerate into a weakened institution. Now there should however be no room for people to ask for the Army's destruction or splitting - which as yet I have rarely seen and where i see it I completely ignore it.
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