“The army as it is now could hardly

“The army as it is now could hardly contribute to the protection of the territorial integrity, at least for some reasonable time. The question is, what is reasonable and what should we do afterwards? Because there is simply no capacity for confronting anyone.“
---> Miroslav Lazanski: “We have only 220 tanks. What can you do with 220 tanks?“
This comes as no surprise. Boris Tadic, who was among the first to hold the post of Minister of Defense of Serbia and Montenegro after Milosevic fell, later becoming President of Serbia in two terms, prided himself on his achievements in regards to the military.
---> VBA 01: “He improved breakfast in the military barracks. He presented this as one of his biggest achievements. How did we get here? In that transformation process, uneducated people came up again, people who didn’t graduate in our schools, but in some foreign schools.“
Though they were called experts by the government, pushing Serbia’s military towards so-called NATO standards was top priority.
---> VBA 01: „Ah, those NATO standards. Those uneducated students brought us here. One of the problems was the criteria, how to choose an officer. So they made a staff pyramid. On top of the pyramid were those who spoke English well and who were good with computers.“
When someone starts shooting at you, your English proficiency and computer skills might not be enough to protect yourself.
---> Miroslav Lazanski: “We drastically reduced the number of our soldiers, we reduced our heavy weaponry. I actually think that this derived from the thinking that the army should mainly be used for peacekeeping missions, so-called peacekeeping missions, even though they’re really combat missions, either under the UN, the EU or NATO, but for a serious fight, I don’t see there any potential.“
Military analyst Miroslav Lazanski explained on Serbian National Television why the military was unable to adequately protect the country from the wide-scale flooding that took place in 2014.
---> Miroslav Lazanski: „Our army was completely transformed in the way it was demanded from abroad. We have the General Staff, the ministries according to Gs, the NATO standards G1, G2, G3. So let the Gs get out and fill up those sand bags to save our people. It’s incredible that the arrival of two amphibious vehicles to the flooded area is breaking news on TV. Where are all those amphibious vehicles that our army had? How is it possible that they send a public appeal on TV for 150 shovels? ‘People, bring shovels to the army’.“ RTS: „Those kinds of appeals exist everywhere in the world, come on.“, Miroslav Lazanski: „No, in organized countries they at least have shovels. Since nobody invested in the army for the last 20 years, reforms that were glamorously celebrated really meant having military advisors who were British and Dutch generals and this is how they lined up our army, and this mess is the result of all that.“
As the people were becoming aware that Western-imposed reforms weren’t in the interest of ordinary citizens, the West had to make sure that the people, their leaders and the media would stay in line. To do this, the West continued funding certain nongovernmental organizations.
---> Diana Johnstone: “It’s very funny because a lot of these non-governmental organizations are governmental. They’re financed by all of the, the National Endowment for Democracy, organizations call themselves nongovernmental but, in fact, they’re financed by the United States government.”

Resultat (engelska) 1:

"The army as it is now could hardly contribute to the protection of the territorial integrity, at least for some reasonable time. The question is, what is reasonable and what should we do afterwards? Because there is simply no capacity for confronting anyone. "— —-> Miroslav Lazanski: "We have only 220 tanks. What can you do with 220 tanks? "This comes as no surprise. Boris Tadic, who was among the first to hold the post of Minister of Defense of Serbia and Montenegro after Milosevic fell, later becoming President of Serbia in two terms, prided himself on his achievements in regards to the military.— —-> VBA 01: "He improved breakfast in the military barracks. He presented this as one of his biggest achievements. How did we get here? In that transformation process, uneducated people came up again, people who didn't graduate in our schools, but in some foreign schools. "Though they were so-called experts by the government, pushing Serbia's military towards so-called NATO standards was top priority.— —-> VBA 01: "Ah, those NATO standards. Those uneducated students brought us here. One of the problems was the criteria, how to choose an officer. So they made a staff pyramid. On top of the pyramid were those who spoke English well and who were good with computers. "When someone starts shooting at you, your English proficiency and computer skills might not be enough to protect yourself.— —-> Miroslav Lazanski: "We drastically reduced the number of our soldiers, we reduced our heavy weaponry. I actually think that this derived from the thinking that the army should mainly be used for peacekeeping missions, the so-called peacekeeping missions, even though they're really combat missions, either under the UN, the EU or NATO, but for a serious fight, I don't see there any potential. "Military analyst Miroslav Lazanski explained on Serbian National Television why the military was unable to adequately protect the country from the wide-scale flooding that took place in 2014.— —-> Miroslav Lazanski: "Our army was completely transformed into the way it was demanded from abroad. We have the General Staff, the ministries according to Gs, the NATO standard G1, G2, G3. So let the Gs get out and fill up those sand bags to save our people. It's incredible that the arrival of two amphibious vehicles to the flooded area is breaking news on TV. Where are all those amphibious vehicles that our army had? How is it possible that they send a public appeal on TV for 150 shovels? ' People, bring shovels to the army '. " RTS: "Those kinds of appeals exist everywhere in the world, come on.", Miroslav Lazanski: "No, in organized countries they at least have shovels. Since nobody invested in the army for the last 20 years, reforms that were glamorously celebrated really meant having military advisors who were British and Dutch generals and this is how they lined up our army, and this mess is the result of all that. "As the people were becoming aware that Western-imposed reform weren ' t in the interest of ordinary citizens, the West had to make sure that the people, their leaders and the media would stay in line. To do this, the West continued funding certain nongovernmental organizations.— —-> Diana Johnstone: "It's very funny because a lot of these non-governmental organizations are governmental. They're "co-financed" by all of the, the National Endowment for Democracy, a nongovernmental organizations call themselves but, in fact, they're "co-financed" by the United States government. "

Resultat (engelska) 3:

"The army as it is now could hardly contribute to the protection of the territorial integrity, at least for some reasonable time. The question is, what is reasonable and what should we do afterwards? Because there is simply no capacity for confronting anyone. "
---> Miroslav Lazanski: "We have only 220 tanks. What can you do with 220 tanks? "
This comes as no surprise. Boris Tadic,