The enemy penetrates into our territory, some of them die, and I’m confident that our people allow them to carry away their dead. This humanity is surprising me. I’ve never called to attack first. I say – if they attack us, we must take the war to the enemy’s territory. I do not understand, international standards are only for us, or what?

Recently we have a lot of pride in our army, that it is an established structure. However, it seems to me that we very much look forward to the army. Developing societies ought to think about the harmony of all spheres. It’s not possible to consider the army as established structure if one or another branch of the society is poorly developed. Every day I become an eyewitness to the glorification of the criminal world, thieves’ morals in the series, plays, books. How it happened that our people suddenly put all these at the very top of propaganda? My childhood was spent in the postwar years, when the conditions were much more difficult, but one of thousands chose this path. And no one boasted such people. On the contrary, they said – how did it happen that he turned away from the true path? Who is the hero of our time? Time creates a hero! If someone puts morals at the heart of his activities, he becomes a hero of our time, because today there is a demand for morality.

The shortcomings characteristic of our society, as well as shortcomings in the army come from our wrong cultural policy. We must realize that culture is not fun, but a powerful means of education, the foundation of morality and has a single purpose – to educate society. Each of our today’s mistakes tomorrow will lead to sad consequences, and today we are witnessing this.

Recently captain Voskanyan was awarded the medal “Vazgen Sargsyan”. Acting under his command tank company during final exams of 2014, they registered high rates of fire training and driving.
His colleagues said about him that “his strength and weakness is the tank.”
“And why the tank?” – I asked Mihran. He sincerely replied, “Because tank emphasizes my importance”.

Recently commander of the air defense of Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Major General Altay Mehdiyev has been dismissed from the service. He is one of the most famous high-ranking military of Azerbaijan, participant of the Karabakh war. Perhaps the main reason for the dismissal of General was his national identity.

On January 27 Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan summed up the 2014 army year. Besides journalists, military attaches of foreign diplomatic missions, high-ranking militarymen, guests were present on the press-conference.
As expected, the Minister highlighted the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, noting that the systematic violation of the ceasefire, the organization of sabotage, Armenophobia grafting his own people and vile falsification of obvious facts from the Azerbaijani side is a destabilizing factor in the safety of the South Caucasus and in the region.

In comparison with 2013, the number of reported cases of the enemy increased by 16, reaching from 6 to 22. I’ll note that in the central office of the Military Police five working groups have formed that regularly visit military units to check on-site the service of military police and the effectiveness of cooperation with commanders of military units.