Author: Aigerim Suleimenova
What does it mean to be a professional officer? According to Huntington (1991) we need to analyze the professional character of officers. There are three key features: expertise, corporateness and responsibility. Do all of these satisfy and enough for Kazakhstan officers be professionals?
In January 24, 2017 the military servant of Kazakhstani army was arrested in Aktau because he refused to perform h/is duties, in other words he disobeyed the higher rank officer. According to Criminal code, he was found guilty and arrested for 48 hours. The quite light punishment was because no one was harmed. This is an example of how military servants not obey the rules and this does not satisfy with corporate character of officer, where the priority is given to higher rank. Also being a professional military servant means give the responsibility to the state, where you cannot not broke the rule and impose decisions upon yourself, and all actions are controlled by the law.
In order to get a military education and get a military skills there are military schools, colleges and universities (ex. Zhas Ulan Republican school, Military Academy in Almaty etc). Moreover there are military Departments at universities which are responsible for military education. These can show that students who graduate these universities have a specialized knowledge and some experience. Also there is the Army (Military service contract) which is for 1 year, where people (both male and female) can join and under the contract have different positions (officer, soldiers, warrant officers). However from 2014 there is new type of military service –military technical school, where a man can pay 300.000 tenge and be under military conditions (real Army) for 1 month and this is instead of 1 year military service and they receive a lieutenant rank. Hence we can assume that what knowledge and experience can get a person for 1 month is not enough for professional officer, because professional officer need more intense and intellectualized knowledge and experience.
As Huntington (1991) argued “management of violence” is one of the important and central skills that professional officer obligate to do, however previous example (with soldier in Aktau) showed that this person cannot do his duties, and even not able to maintain control over himself.
From this one example we can see that nowadays our military is lack of professionals. Having a good, trained and professionalized military is one of the steps to development. The Ministry of Defense has stated that Kazakhstan was going to have a professional army by 2016 and we hope that this plan will be fulfilled near future.
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https://en.tengrinews.kz/military/Kazakhstan-to-have-professional-army-by-2016-23220/
https://tengrinews.kz/crime/aktau-soldata-arestovali-otkaz-vyipolnyat-prikaz-komandira-312971/
https://egov.kz/cms/en/articles/sluzhba_po_kontract
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In January 24, 2017 the military servant of Kazakhstani army was arrested in Aktau because he refused to perform h/is duties, in other words he disobeyed the higher rank officer. According to Criminal code, he was found guilty and arrested for 48 hours. The quite light punishment was because no one was harmed. This is an example of how military servants not obey the rules and this does not satisfy with corporate character of officer, where the priority is given to higher rank. Also being a professional military servant means give the responsibility to the state, where you cannot not broke the rule and impose decisions upon yourself, and all actions are controlled by the law.
In order to get a military education and get a military skills there are military schools, colleges and universities (ex. Zhas Ulan Republican school, Military Academy in Almaty etc). Moreover there are military Departments at universities which are responsible for military education. These can show that students who graduate these universities have a specialized knowledge and some experience. Also there is the Army (Military service contract) which is for 1 year, where people (both male and female) can join and under the contract have different positions (officer, soldiers, warrant officers). However from 2014 there is new type of military service –military technical school, where a man can pay 300.000 tenge and be under military conditions (real Army) for 1 month and this is instead of 1 year military service and they receive a lieutenant rank. Hence we can assume that what knowledge and experience can get a person for 1 month is not enough for professional officer, because professional officer need more intense and intellectualized knowledge and experience.
As Huntington (1991) argued “management of violence” is one of the important and central skills that professional officer obligate to do, however previous example (with soldier in Aktau) showed that this person cannot do his duties, and even not able to maintain control over himself.
From this one example we can see that nowadays our military is lack of professionals. Having a good, trained and professionalized military is one of the steps to development. The Ministry of Defense has stated that Kazakhstan was going to have a professional army by 2016 and we hope that this plan will be fulfilled near future.
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https://en.tengrinews.kz/military/Kazakhstan-to-have-professional-army-by-2016-23220/
https://tengrinews.kz/crime/aktau-soldata-arestovali-otkaz-vyipolnyat-prikaz-komandira-312971/
https://egov.kz/cms/en/articles/sluzhba_po_kontract
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