That makes sense
Look ask yourself who joins the military ?
It's people who were at the bottom of the merit in FSC/FA.
Kakool can train them to behave to a certain extent, but the fact that they don't have a scientific mind can't be changed.
Now I personally know some brilliant doctors whom I have the pleasure of working with.
One of them i well known to all, the rest you may not know.
But by in large, R&D, product development is not suited to military in her present form and structure.
I think u understand my point that military officers should not be in charge of scientists when they have no idea what the science is about. The fool in charge will stifle progress due to his personal limitations
A very interesting debate. We have done well in certain sectors like AWC. The problem remains lack of clarity over who is doing what and appreciation of work. With the rigid structure brilliant minds get discouraged as their ideas are not understood or there is lack of funding. Even if they do come up with something it gets shoved aside due to prejudice or greed for commission or simply lack of funds. There is a point to be made in freeing up these institutions but in our society the lack of discipline may well mean ruin in case of bringing it under civilian rule.
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The root issue isn't that it's the military is in charge of these departments, but that people who aren't qualified and experienced are heading them up. So, in most cases, the generals or other officers who get parachuted into leading orgs aren't familiar with the org's work, culture, team, or vision. In the best-case scenario, they come in, sit and watch, and in the worst-case scenario they drive the real talent out of the org and, eventually, the country.
In theory, the military
can run these orgs, but only if they structure leadership the right way. In my opinion,
that way is to delegate to the experts.
So, basically, the military leadership sits in a 'Board of Directors' type setup. In turn, the Board nominates high-performing experts from within the org to lead the organization and provides them KPIs, such as X% revenue growth, Y% savings, #Z of new IP, etc. From there, the internal executives carry out their work with the necessary freedom to achieve those KPIs.
It's a tried-and-true concept that drives the world's top corporations. In fact, Turkey is using a similar model to support its state-owned enterprises (SOE). In the end, the main 'backer' of TAI, Aselsan, etc, is the Turkish Armed Forces' Pension Fund. Whatever profit TAI et.al create ultimately goes back to the benefit of the retired and serving personnel. I imagine the Board, i.e., Turkish generals, get bonuses if they oversee a successful quarter or fiscal year too.
Yes, the above model isn't perfect. It's heavily privilege-laden (i.e., why do military officers get to benefit from something the country funds). Fair. But at least from a "macro" standpoint, we can see TAI et. al progress from a technology and efficiency standpoint. We can at least see TAI et. al encourage wider economic activity, especially in the private sector (which benefits from a growing line of subcontracting deals, collaborative partnerships, etc). So, even in this 'privilege' model, we see that Turks outside of the "military class" get to benefit in terms of jobs, chances to create their own businesses that can get TAI et.al contracts, etc.
So, if we applied the 'Turkish model' in PAC, we'd see the PAF set up a Board of several serving and retired AVMs and AMs. That Board will decide on KPIs based on AHQ's requirements. They will then hire aerospace and defence engineers, business managers, marketers, financial guys, etc. This new delegated executive team will then work to achieve those KPIs. In turn, we'd prob see a lot of fat-trimming, a big focus on sub-contracting low-grade, labor-intensive work to the private sector, a stronger emphasis on R&D and IP-generation with long-term projects, etc, etc.
The problem with Pakistani generals is that they have a real bad case of 'desi uncle-messiah syndrome.' They can't and won't delegate to others. Despite the fact that there are millions of civilian Pakistani experts in a huge range of fields (a big % being of military lineage), generals will not lean on them and will insist to manage these orgs themselves.
This tells me that it isn't 'privilege' or 'discrimination' driving the thought of our generals. If it was only discrimination, then at least civilians who are the children of retired officers would be asked to lead said orgs. But we don't even get that. What's driving our generals' thinking is just some irrational mental block. It's just stupidity.
