Professional Military Education (PME)

MVI Articles dealing with the nuances of Professional Military Education (PME)

Clarity Of Vision, Contrarian Views & Need To Enable Free Thinking
How many of our officers actually understand conventional war. Joint operations and integrated applications? We might be brilliant in those PowerPoint slides and cavalry type articulation. But that won’t win us the next war."

Neil John

22 Mar 2022
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Who Killed INDU?
"Why has INDU been on cardiopulmonary resuscitation since 1967, and; if dead, who killed it?"

Lieutenant General PC Katoch (Retd)

28 Jun 2021
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Army Officers & Professional Military Education: Need for Focused, Systemic Change
The idea of new systemic of PME is to broaden perspectives of officers and not to make great scholars out of military leaders. Education can imbue officers with critical thinking skills and strengthen abilities to contribute to solutions of complex issues.

Lieutenant General (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd)

5 May 2021
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Does India's Professional Military Education Need a Course Correction? (Part-2)
The quality of 'Professional Military Education' in the Indian Armed Forces has been a long pending area of discourse, with the subject only recently coming to the arena of public discussion. Part-2 of this debate continues to bring a diversity of views on PME.

Aritra Banerjee, Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd)

2 Jan 2021
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Arresting the Decline in India's Professional Military Education
"There is not much need for education when the only agenda is to follow orders – training is just enough. Being a hierarchical organisation, the organisational direction is always dictated from the top."

Pankaj Bhagwati

26 Dec 2020
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Does India's Professional Military Education Need a Course Correction?
The quality of 'Professional Military Education' in the Indian Armed Forces has been a long pending area of discourse, with the subject only recently coming to the arena of public discussion. This debate aims to bring a diversity of Tri-Service views on PME.

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Aritra Banerjee

23 Dec 2020
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Conditioned To Think
"The impact of behavioural psychology in the field of combat and military training has been the subject of many studies abroad in the second half of the 20th century and has brought many revolutionary changes in training."

Commodore BR Prakash (Retd)

22 Dec 2020
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Defending Last Bastion Through Professional Military Education
"The requirement to prepare personnel to shoulder responsibilities at all levels of the new joint/unified commands calls for a major overhaul of our system of 'Professional Military Education' as well as doctrines."

Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd)

19 Dec 2020
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PME: A Need to Educate Our Political Masters, Bureaucracy and Society
A soldier’s profession is war. He needs guns, equipment, tanks, society’s support and political direction to fight war. This is what our political leaders don’t understand. And therefore, the crucial necessity to impart 'Professional Military Education' to them.

Major General VK Madhok (Retd)

13 Dec 2020
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Professional Military Training: The Delivery End of Business!
"Whatever generals may do whichever army has the best trained section, platoon, company and battalion; will win the battle and will carry the commander. Strategy matters second to physical fighting in the battle field."

Lieutenant Colonel MK Guptaray (Retd)

11 Dec 2020
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PME: Poor Military Education & its Impact on Leadership
"Professional Military Education is the fundamental requisite of war winning strategies."

Colonel Rajinder Kushwaha (Retd)

4 Dec 2020
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In Conversation with Col. David O Smith (Retd), Author of ‘The Wellington Experience’
‘The American Philosophy of Professional Military Education is Completely Different from Both Pakistan and India, the Latter Two Being Virtually the Same’

Ghazala Wahab

26 Nov 2020
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 Professional Military Education & Producing Thought Leaders For The Army
“The aim of Professional Military Education is not to produce conformists and followers, but to inculcate a systemic push towards analysis. The course content must seek out freshness of thought, ideators, and also denote so in their assessments.”

Lieutenant General (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd)

26 Nov 2020
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Professional Military Education Needs More Creativity, Not More History
“They said the People’s Liberation Army Air Force could overcome American technology in a conflict, but — where they fell short in their eyes — was in ingenuity, independence, and creativity."

Dr. Adam Lowther, Dr. Brooke Mitchell

26 Nov 2020
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Train-Learn Balance
“The Importance of professional military education cannot be overemphasised”

Ghazala Wahab

24 Nov 2020
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Professional Military Education: What Is It Good For?
“The idea is that these officers need a common basis of knowledge with each other and with others in the national security community in order to operate effectively at the next level of leadership...”

Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin

24 Nov 2020
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