Changes are imminent to military service, including the voluntary conscription of women.
The main idea is to transform, as Nikos Dendias has said, military service from a chore into an opportunity, and that our young people, leaving the army, can have some skills that will be useful to them in their professional life as well, he stressed the Deputy Minister of National Defense, Yiannis Kefalogiannis, speaking to ERT about the changes brought by the Finnish model, while the Ministry of National Defense has already made it clear that the time limit of the Greek mandate is not going to change.
“The reason we take some cues from the Finnish model, is that Finland conforms too much to the Greek model in various issues. I mean has a mixed army, i.e. professional and reservists, border guards while from the east is the threat called Russia. Over time, if you look at the history of the two countries, you will see that a very small nation in terms of population like Finland, faced at various stages of its history a very big threat that used to be the Russian Empire, later the Soviet Union, now Russia “, said Mr. Kefalogiannis.
It is difficult to “catch” those who will enlist in 2024, but that was the goal of the last ESSO, said Yiannis Kefalogiannis. confirming finally, that in the Finnish model the conscription of women is on the table as a voluntary one.
“We have, first of all, both in the Army, in the Air Force, and in our Navy, excellent Centers for Lifelong Learning, which at the moment train mainly the permanent officers and some very few draftees. So we want to develop them, to certify them according to the national certification authorities, so that when the citizen, the soldier, gets a certification that will be useful either in the private or in the public sector, that is, even for a proclamation, he said Yiannis Kefalogiannis, indicatively mentioning the lifeguard’s specialty.
We intend to include critical specialties, such as civil protection and first aid, added the Deputy Minister of National Defense, referring to the category of those who have studied, to the category of young people who are now given the opportunity to get a supply in the army. “We have identified a number of categories that if actually integrated our young person will be able to obtain a certificate,” he said.
An IT department is established in the Armed Forces
“The staffs are currently processing a series of data on exactly what army we need and the bill that we presented to the cabinet regarding the Innovation Center is part of this framework. Because what the country really needs right now is not to spend billions from the Greek taxpayer’s arrears on weapon systems, although useful, but perhaps many times we have to see that there are also some more intelligent systems, less expensive, which they can have a very large footprint in a conflict”, said Yiannis Kefalogiannis, clarifying:
“The basic philosophy in chapter 1 of the bill regarding the Information Technology Department, which is currently being established in the Armed Forces, is that now the modern officer is at the same time a scientist and also if one has to deal with modern weapons systems he has to know in depth the object. Cyber security and artificial intelligence are part of every modern army and the most important thing is that at the moment we do have some specialized officers, who have mainly studied IT at a postgraduate level, but there is not a unified body.
“This department will be integrated in Thessaloniki, at the School of Officer Corps of our Army, where in this way, as for example the doctors leave, as the lawyers leave, those who will deal with the IT issue will also leave. It will be under GEETHA and I believe that in this way it will be more functional and the procedures will be faster in terms of the issue of dealing with any risks”, added Mr. Kefalogiannis.
“The first bakery in the IT common body”
So the first batch that will go in, maybe, is this or next September. The goal is to be him. You understand that it takes four years for the first graduates to come out of the common body. This does not mean that in these four years we will sit and wait for developments.
Obviously, we will try to implement procedures as dense as possible in relation to the retraining of the already existing officers on issues of IT, cyber security, artificial intelligence. In order to develop all these infrastructures, which are necessary, but at the moment there is a very important work being done within the GEETHA and the Staffs, so that we can integrate the new structures under the GEETHA. This will require much less time,” said the Deputy Minister of National Defense.
Innovation Center: Within the next few weeks the bill will be consulted
There is funding, with 25 million which will be the initial capital, so that through this Innovation Center we can finance companies that want to develop the corresponding weapon systems, which then the Ministry of National Defense will also have the rights to them. We are getting a lot of features of the Israeli model, a very large ecosystem around the defense industry and especially cutting-edge technology, Mr. Kefalogiannis said, adding that the skills fields are almost ready.
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