What did we have since October 2020? The policy of the society in Armenia was already a fantastic level, society was divided into black, whites, non-robbers, and all this spread not only to the political level, but also a projection on the army. In the meeting with the audience and lecturers of the Armenian University, 2nd President Robert Kocharian expressed such an opinion, analyzing the reasons for defeat.
"The generality was intimidated, and in public perception, the generals were perceived as a stray of army, and I even realized that the generals with a struggled past were more likely to appear in civilian clothes. Ahead, if military clothes were a subject of pride, they tried to hide for a moment, and not in such places in such places. This was a tool for destroying the army, the army. It was done consciously or not consciously, I don't know, I don't want to give an assessment in this case, but this was a fact. If any of you try to study 2018, 2019, 2020, you will see that this was one of the main topic of the information field, and this could not have a serious impact on the army, because the command staff was intimidated every day every day. At that time, the situation in the country changed enough, changed management models, and populism really became a serious factor, almost everything, and maybe ... I have one step back. I mentioned that serious changes were needed in the army, which we should have taken from the classes we needed. Since 2018, it was ignored, no one was interested, was simply aside, and the main reforms of the army had become more strasing reforms, where the officials were visited, where they visited, the canteen. I really liked the parents whose children were in the army, but people did not go to polygons, they were not interested in combat readiness at all. The main topic was that how they feed a soldier, what is the life of life, which is good, but the army is not for that. All those expenses should be directed to combat readiness, not other purposes. What is the army? It has a 2-year cycle. For 5 - 6 months, he has to prepare a soldier, two years later he is demobilized. 2 years, you will not have a busy fight, you will no longer have an army. You will not have a direct army, or the army's combat readiness will drop sharp decline. Approximately, the situation is like KPI if the canteen is set, not the polygon, the officer, which changed at the time, begins to do with a canteen, not polygon. And we had what we had, "Kocharyan said.
The second president reminded that he was in Karabakh on the 3rd day after the start of the war. "I have been to Karabakh for two weeks, and I just talked about my second day, and I was addressing Bako Sahakyan and Arkady Ghukasyan, and meet with Arayik Harutyunyan. My main message was as follows to do everything to stop the war, bring more problems every day of war, because we are not ready. In this way, you will not win in this situation. At that time, Arayik Harutyunyan said that if I meet Kocharyan, Pashinyan will eat me. "Bako Sahakyan was literally transferred to me. We had what we had in Karabakh. "
Robert Kocharyan also touched upon drones, which Azerbaijan had used Azerbaijan during the April 2016 war. According to the second president, he had to make very serious conclusions. "It was not for Sou 30 Selfi, but needed RP systems, needed very serious investments in the air defense, it was done. Now these are the main reasons why we lived in the evolution in 91-94, in 16. So let's come to the following conclusion. During this time, we have started to give up to Azerbaijan not only in almost all quantitative indicators, we have also started to be sharply in qualitative issues related to our security issues. "
