Actually, believe you me, majority of the reserve are serving
for the sake of serving, to complete their reserve cycles. Sure,
the military tasks are on par with the active regular units, but
everyone must bear in mind that, regardless of the 'fact' that we
are well-trained and well-led when compared with the regional
militaries, we are still a citizen army. The long-term disadvantage
of this when it was first started all off is that, there will be
attitude problems among the ranks and files, and even extending to
the officer corps.
Such a wasting disease in the psyche of such citizen soldiers
actually pervade into the regular forces as well, since they are
bogged down to double up as training cadres mostly for the reserve
lot. So, do not place too much confidence in such a citizen army
formation like ours to win a war. However, we will not be done in
if we radically change or at least revert to the traditional
methods as mentioned by the originator of this topic.
And, the readers should never stifle anyone here regarding his or
her seniority or level of experience. Much worse, to add sarcasm to
their stifling remarks at that, for that matter.
