The Garrison State & Military Keynesianism: A tool of Security and Economic Development

CivilNet's political consultant Eric Hacopian reads his column entitled "The Garrison State & Military Keynesianism: A tool of Security and Economic Development."

Enough of such sentiments. Next time we prevail, it will be using the deadliest weapons we manufactured used by the meanest and best trained men and women to have ever walked the earth.

Armenia needs a new military. The goal of our new national defense should be to rebuild a military that is capable of defending Armenia and the people of Artsakh against the most competently led and armed opponents.

To achieve this goal, for the next 20 years we must become an army that has a country rather than a country that has an army. Our national security should be the first, second and third priorities of the State. All domestic policies from education, energy and food security should be seen through the prism of national security.

There are two important corollaries to this approach, the first is that regardless of this change in priorities the military must always remain subservient to civilian and democratic governance. Just as importantly the re-orientation should not be a drain on our national economic resources but actually be the basis of a growing economy. This will ensure that we bring back industry, science and research.

We must begin with a serious study of the failures of the Artsakh 2020 war. WE NEED A REFORM COMMISSION. A look into our failures will provide critical recommendations to reform and modernize the Army.

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