Senate asks that service chiefs be fired. Fresh ideas wanted.
As simple as that?
Removing the service chiefs won’t change anything. Strengthening the armed forces in terms of number, equipment and sophistication will. The service chiefs may go if they are due, but not as a strategy for winning the war. If they stay on, their juniors should not leave on grounds of time or length of service. Leaving all on may enhance capacity to handle the much-needed rapid expansion of the military which should normally come from the bottom end.
Saying the service chiefs should go because they have run out of ideas is both thoughtless and childish. It suggests that the new commanders that will come with ‘fresh ideas’ have not been working with current service chiefs. Same applies to the police. Routine retirements may need to be suspended until security situation stabilizes. It is even more result-yielding to slow down exit of experienced security personnel than rapid enlistment.
