Zakon.kz carried the ministry’s readout at 16:42 Astana time. The army must develop not for the sake of report indicators and show events, the minister said; every process, every decision and every allocated resource must have a practical result and go to the combat capability of the Armed Forces. Commanders were told to build a healthy moral and psychological climate in their units, to improve the conditions of service and daily life, and to prevent and harshly suppress hazing.
Training, he said, must match today’s conditions of combat and rest on practical experience, on the analysis of current conflicts and on the new uses of unmanned systems, electronic warfare, reconnaissance and communications. The management of the troops is to be digitised, with the cut falling on administrative procedures, reporting and meetings of no practical value; the resources freed are to go straight to combat capability. Purchases and the distribution of resources are to follow the real needs of the troops, with inefficient spending excluded and decisions made transparent.
The army must develop not for the sake of report indicators and show events, the minister said; every process, every decision and every allocated resource must have a practical result and go to the combat capability of the Armed Forces.
The meeting also reviewed the comprehensive check of the ministry ordered by the president on Saturday. Heads of structural units were instructed to give the commission every assistance and all the information it requires, Tengrinews reported at 16:58.
That commission has 7 days to report its first results to Tokayev, which falls around 3 October; the military reform plan the president ordered on Sunday is due in 10 days, around 7 October, for a decision in the second half of the month. The five officers detained on 25 September over the deaths of 14 servicemen from the patrol boat Qaisar remained unnamed on Monday, and no court decision on their remand appeared on Kazinform, Zakon or Akorda. The two articles they are held under carry up to 5 years’ imprisonment for negligence in service with grave consequences and up to 7 for breaching the rules of navigating a warship, with a bar on holding certain posts for up to 10 years.