Do you think the average IQ of new Indian Army officers has declined over the past 40 years like in the US military? Over the past 40 years, the average IQ of a new officer in the US Marine Corps has dropped from 131 in 1980 to likely below 120 in the present. Source: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/selectyears_watermark.jpg
Strongly disagree with the author on a large part of the article.
The officer cadre on the Armed Forces is one of the last bastions which is PURELY merit based. From the selection at the SSB, to the merit list AT NDA and IMA as well as appointments as Cadet Captains or Indet Officets in the Academy. The Author himself is a product of an elite school which sends about 90% of its students to the NDA in each batch. Going by his logic that should not be the case....but his school is a primary feeder institution which singularly has more officers as well as Generals and equivalent than the next four or five combined.
If students from Uttarakhand are so motivated and from some communities are not, the onus lies on the elders and intelligentsia of those communities to motive the next generation fir a profession in the Armed Forces ...if they consider such a profession worth the effort.
The meritocracy within the Armed Forces has withstood the test of time and needs to be maintained. Not to say that a degree of nepotism is not there, but again more on Regimental lines than Religious ones.
The religion of the troops is the religion the officers actually follow and thatsvthe strength of the Army
Do you think the average IQ of new Indian Army officers has declined over the past 40 years like in the US military? Over the past 40 years, the average IQ of a new officer in the US Marine Corps has dropped from 131 in 1980 to likely below 120 in the present. Source: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/selectyears_watermark.jpg
Strongly disagree with the author on a large part of the article.
The officer cadre on the Armed Forces is one of the last bastions which is PURELY merit based. From the selection at the SSB, to the merit list AT NDA and IMA as well as appointments as Cadet Captains or Indet Officets in the Academy. The Author himself is a product of an elite school which sends about 90% of its students to the NDA in each batch. Going by his logic that should not be the case....but his school is a primary feeder institution which singularly has more officers as well as Generals and equivalent than the next four or five combined.
If students from Uttarakhand are so motivated and from some communities are not, the onus lies on the elders and intelligentsia of those communities to motive the next generation fir a profession in the Armed Forces ...if they consider such a profession worth the effort.
The meritocracy within the Armed Forces has withstood the test of time and needs to be maintained. Not to say that a degree of nepotism is not there, but again more on Regimental lines than Religious ones.
The religion of the troops is the religion the officers actually follow and thatsvthe strength of the Army
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