{"id":4339,"date":"2016-03-11T08:24:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T02:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2016-03-11T08:24:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T02:54:01","slug":"pulwama-attack-army-brats-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4339","title":{"rendered":"Dear Army Brats, Who Made You the Authority on National Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t\u2019s almost a month since 40 of our soldiers were killed following a suicide bombing in <\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/pulwama-kashmir-terrorist-attack-congress-bjp-unite\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pulwama<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and tensions surged unbearably when both India and Pakistan decided to cross the LoC \u00a0in a show of political intent and military might. Things took a turn for the better when Pakistan returned Wing Commander <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/abhinandan-varthaman-k-nachiketa-iaf-kargil-balakot-india-pakistan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abhinandan Varthaman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a \u201cgesture of peace\u201d after his plane was downed across the border. But \u201cbetter\u201d is a relative term when two nuclear powers are gnashing their teeth at each other while the world watches in horror, especially when one of them has elections hammering down the door and nothing much to show for by way of achievements. Wars distract, and win elections, after all. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s been a month of nail-biting stress for those horrified by the idea of war. And a month full of overenthusiastic <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/kerala-flood-relief-online-trolls\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">keyboard warriors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> co-opting the cause of nationalism like it\u2019s their pet project and doing everything in their power to create social media shit-storms fuelled by ignorance and lack of personal liability in the theatre of war. While these self-appointed national security experts belong to all religions, classes, and castes, making the rest of us wonder how their talents for foreign policy and defence strategy have been hidden from us for so long, there is one sub-section within this group that stands out for its odiousness: the smug, snivelling, self-congratulatory Army Brat. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know these people, I\u2019m talking about. The ones whose most interesting life stories are from 30-odd years ago, when their father was stationed in so-and-so place and they were forced to change schools for the fourth time. They could be working at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/six-habits-start-up-entrepreneurs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">start-ups<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, slaving away to get their MBA degrees so they can work at a bank, helping cola companies make money by devising strategies to seem more appealing to little kids, or spending their days lecturing people who are never going to listen on the importance of flossing \u2014 but in their hearts and to the world, they will always be the Army Brat.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On its own, disproportionate pride in one\u2019s parent\u2019s profession \u2014 past or present \u2014 does not make them unbearable to be around. I\u2019d place them right under the Daddy\u2019s Little Princess shelf, but above the Mummy Ka Ladla Beta bin. If going through life feeling nostalgic about one\u2019s parents\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indian-parents-career-paths-media-industry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">profession<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was an unacceptable way to live life, half of Bollywood would be forced to get actual jobs to pass their time. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The odiousness of the ubiquitous Army Brat is tiresome in peacetime, but positively insufferable when the very real <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/pulwama-pakistan-uri-india-narendra-modi-crpf\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threat of war<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lurks in the air. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have the misfortune of being friends (now ex) with many creatures of these unique species. Something about a stir at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/do-pakistan-war-films-ask-hows-the-josh\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">border<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (but not just any border, the glamorous one that is covered in media and immortalised in movies, like Kashmir) sends them in a tailspin, one that they can emerge from only once they\u2019ve written long, emotional posts about the glory of serving the country, how it takes a different mettle to know that each day could be your loved one\u2019s last, but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/fitoor-mishra-independence-day-bollywood-patriotism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deshbhakti<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comes first, and yada, yada, yada. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">And yet they fling inclusive pronouns like \u201cus\u201d, \u201cwe\u201d, and \u201cours\u201d as if they actually have a personal stake, or even what having a personal stake feels like.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of that is untrue, of course. Most of us can\u2019t imagine what it must be like to live life knowing that all that stands between you and death is a war you had no say in. We can never know what a number it must do on the spouses, children, and families of soldiers in conflict zones; we can never imagine what it feels like expecting that dreaded <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/phone-calls-millennials-whatsapp-call-internet-texting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">phone call<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0or living with the fear that they might never see their loved ones again. But I\u2019ve noticed that neither do most of the Army Brats glued to Facebook, letting 280-character missiles fly on Twitter every time someone has the temerity to question a pro-war stance as the only way of showing love for the country. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And here\u2019s an important distinction I must underline \u2014 I\u2019m not saying <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0army kids are brats or <em>all<\/em> Army Brats are pro-war. But I\u2019ve noticed that all the pro-war Army Brats I know are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/kashmir-lost-children-documentary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">children<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of officers who have either served in peacetime, or were engaged in support\/non-combat roles. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One \u2014 who was swiftly unfriended (but not before sharp words were exchanged) due to his vulgar, factually incorrect screed about Pakistan, concluding that if war is what they wanted, and war was what was needed to restore India\u2019s izzat, war is what \u201cwe\u201d will give them \u2014 \u00a0is the son of an officer who served in the Indian Army Remount And Veterinary Corps. At 240 years old, the RVC does the important work of breeding, rearing, and training the animals used in the army, but one can\u2019t exactly call it a \u201cdangerous\u201d job in the same way that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/bsf-jawan-indian-army-navy-india-food-ration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soldiers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the frontline face peril. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another \u2014 who was mesmerised by the TV reenactments of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/first-person\/balakot-air-strike-pulwama-jaish\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Balakot air strike<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and proceeded to make inane comments such as it was like watching <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/uri-film-review-vicky-kaushal-indian-army-modi-election\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uri: The Surgical Strike<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> come to life while simultaneously suggesting to redouble \u201cour\u201d efforts to fight the enemies \u2014 is the daughter of an officer who served for five years as a civil engineer, again during peacetime. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet another is the son of a short service commission officer in the executive branch. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of these exceptionally skilled piggy-backers have had to ever leave behind big city comforts in service of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/money-matters\/the-dirty-water-theory-government-congress-bjp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And yet they fling inclusive pronouns like \u201cus\u201d, \u201cwe\u201d, and \u201cours\u201d as if they actually have a personal stake, or even what having a personal stake feels like. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Wars distract, and win elections, after all.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s amazing that the incendiary voices of these nostalgic ninjas ring louder in our collective ears than the pleas of all the children of officers who actually died during wars or acts of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/pulwama-attack-educated-fidayeens-militancy-kashmir\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">terrorism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They, unlike these baying for blood hounds, will never romanticise wars because <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> know what it costs in human terms<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A month after the first heart-stopping possibility of war, the threat of further escalation between India and Pakistan is finally dissipating. Indian and Pakistani high commissioners have resumed diplomatic work in Islamabad and Delhi. It might be business and electioneering as usual for the government, but moving on is not so easy when you\u2019ve just spent a month googling \u201cWhat happens in the event of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/pulwama-attack-peace-dirty-word\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nuclear war<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I asked an enlightened Army Brat this question, and it was deeply satisfying to watch the discomfort on his face as he learned, for the first time, about mushroom clouds filled with radioactive particles, cities being flattened out, ionising radiation, and other not-very-pretty consequences of nuclear detonations. You would think that with their bottomless knowledge about wars, they would know at least this much about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/gandhi-surgical-strikes-pakistan-narendra-modi-uri-war\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">modern warfare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But as it turns out, the only thing they\u2019re experts at is humble-bragging. And it\u2019s not even about their own achievements. \u00a0<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last one month, since the Pulwama attack, among those doubling up as defence experts are smug army brats. Their fathers served in the forces, but these skilled piggy-backers have never left behind big city comforts. 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