Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
What you call a Central Asian mentality, I call Armenian National Interests (ANI). ANI need to be advanced and protected at any cost. National Interests are always the foundation of any national defense doctrine of any country, so literally all of these different “(martial) value systems and philosophies” that exist worldwide are based on National Interests.
Whether in the smoky field of the battlefield or in the smoky room of negotiations there is one thing that is always crystal clear: Those who grasp the National Interests and act accordingly will win while those who can’t will lose, which is precisely what happened to us in the past with the Turks. We lost because we failed to understand and implement the ANI, while the Turk successfully applied his National Interests on us and won. But we will never make that mistake again. Even if the majority of our people disagree with us, even if a patriotic person like yourself would become disgusted with our ways of dealing with our enemies - We will implement it and we will win!
Siamanto,
Read the works of Shahan Natali and Garegin Nzhdeh and you will understand my position even better.
Are you saying that all nations who have developed a viable National Defense System and/or Doctrine, have based it on Central Asian mentality and Jurkish values? Of course not! There exists many other (martial) value systems and philosophies, besides Central Asian/Jurkish/Dr. Junkenstein hooliganism to serve as a basis of a (National) Defense System.
Furthermore, Central Asian/Jurkish/Dr. Junkenstein hooliganism - as an organizational form - does not scale up to the level of a nation and is appropriate only for what it is meant for i.e. hooliganism and harrassment of the defenseless. Even the Ottomans had to look beyond their Jurkish values in order to build a scalable army.
Siamanto,
Read the works of Shahan Natali and Garegin Nzhdeh and you will understand my position even better.
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