We present the 4th episode of the podcast on the topic of “Agenda for Armed Forces Reforms,” featuring military-political and national security expert Hrachya Arzumanyan and military-political expert Armine Margaryan. The discussion is led by Areg Kochinyan, head of the Research Center on Security Policy.
Hrachya Arzumanyan
“In 2020, during the Second Artsakh War, we witnessed that if you resist change, you inevitably lose—and objectively so. It’s not that your soldiers fight poorly or lack the will to fight; rather, it’s the system itself that fails, leaving no alternative.”
Armine Margaryan
“Military science has been completely transformed. Information technologies have been militarized, and all of this can be effectively deployed when actual force is applied. Hybrid methodologies have emerged, and success belongs to those who can interlink and manage all of these elements from a single center.”
Areg Kochinyan
“The component of military education is fundamental to all the changes we discuss. And yes, we are late—we must acknowledge that we are decades behind in this area. But being late does not justify not acting, at least today.”
