Aigerim Suleimenova
The military education in Kazakhstan starts from the school when students are taught the basics of military equipment, this is called Basic military training. This is a required subject for all schools in Kazakhstan, however there are also special Military boarding schools in Almaty, Shymkent, Karaganda,”Zhasulan” military school for gifted boys, cadet corps named after Chokan Valikhanov where students live and military education, physical training, patriotism development, military –progess orientation are taught.
After school, there several higher education institutions Kazakhstan National Defense university, Military institute of air defense forces and so on where students get a higher military education and after a graduation can get an officer rank. Also there is ab obligatory military service for citizens from 18- 27 for one year. However now there is an existence of one month short military service which is accounted as a obligatory military service that was mentioned before, the payment for this is about 300.000 tenge.
From the first sight it can be seen that military education in Kazakhstan is developed, however the quality not quantity matters. Which kind and quality of military officers do it produce? As Karen Guttieri suggested (Bruneau and Tollefson) education is a “central function of military organization”. Here it is important to highlight thay military education is not only about knowledge about military, equipment, training, specific skills but also is about values and behavior, morale and – obedience to authority. Also this is supported by Huntington's characteristics of professional officer. However as we can see from the examples like in Aktau the soldier was jailed because of the disobedience to higher rank officer because this soldier “ did not want to do the actions, because of many younger soldiers around, and he is an older time soldier” the military education of Kazakhstan gave not what is needed.
The need of a new military education was suggested by Bakytzhan Abdiraiym, the head of Military strategic research center. According to him there are three problems in military education lack of new equipment and military vehicles, second is inefficient management system and third is a quality of military education (!!!) This shows that there is a way of development of military education and we believe that this will be improved.
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References
1. https://en.tengrinews.kz/military/Kazakhstan-needs-new-military-education-system-18068/
2. http://central.asia-news.com/en_GB/articles/cnmi_ca/features/2016/07/11/feature-01
3. https://www.mod.gov.kz/rus/obrazovanie/srednee_obrazovanie/?cid=0&rid=385
4. http://old.el.kz/m/articles/view/content-23637
5. https://www.mod.gov.kz/rus/obrazovanie/srednee_obrazovanie/?cid=0&rid=384
6. https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/v-aktau-arestovali-soldata-za-otkaz-vyipolnyat-prikaz-314799/
7. Bruneau, Thomas C., and Scott D. Tollefson. 2008. Who Guards the Guardians and How:
Democratic Civil-Military Relations. University of Texas Press.
The military education in Kazakhstan starts from the school when students are taught the basics of military equipment, this is called Basic military training. This is a required subject for all schools in Kazakhstan, however there are also special Military boarding schools in Almaty, Shymkent, Karaganda,”Zhasulan” military school for gifted boys, cadet corps named after Chokan Valikhanov where students live and military education, physical training, patriotism development, military –progess orientation are taught.
After school, there several higher education institutions Kazakhstan National Defense university, Military institute of air defense forces and so on where students get a higher military education and after a graduation can get an officer rank. Also there is ab obligatory military service for citizens from 18- 27 for one year. However now there is an existence of one month short military service which is accounted as a obligatory military service that was mentioned before, the payment for this is about 300.000 tenge.
From the first sight it can be seen that military education in Kazakhstan is developed, however the quality not quantity matters. Which kind and quality of military officers do it produce? As Karen Guttieri suggested (Bruneau and Tollefson) education is a “central function of military organization”. Here it is important to highlight thay military education is not only about knowledge about military, equipment, training, specific skills but also is about values and behavior, morale and – obedience to authority. Also this is supported by Huntington's characteristics of professional officer. However as we can see from the examples like in Aktau the soldier was jailed because of the disobedience to higher rank officer because this soldier “ did not want to do the actions, because of many younger soldiers around, and he is an older time soldier” the military education of Kazakhstan gave not what is needed.
The need of a new military education was suggested by Bakytzhan Abdiraiym, the head of Military strategic research center. According to him there are three problems in military education lack of new equipment and military vehicles, second is inefficient management system and third is a quality of military education (!!!) This shows that there is a way of development of military education and we believe that this will be improved.
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References
1. https://en.tengrinews.kz/military/Kazakhstan-needs-new-military-education-system-18068/
2. http://central.asia-news.com/en_GB/articles/cnmi_ca/features/2016/07/11/feature-01
3. https://www.mod.gov.kz/rus/obrazovanie/srednee_obrazovanie/?cid=0&rid=385
4. http://old.el.kz/m/articles/view/content-23637
5. https://www.mod.gov.kz/rus/obrazovanie/srednee_obrazovanie/?cid=0&rid=384
6. https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/v-aktau-arestovali-soldata-za-otkaz-vyipolnyat-prikaz-314799/
7. Bruneau, Thomas C., and Scott D. Tollefson. 2008. Who Guards the Guardians and How:
Democratic Civil-Military Relations. University of Texas Press.
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