Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake, stressed the need to change the military’s “mentality” to suit a “post-conflict era,” before “somebody else” directed change, in a high level address today.
Speaking during his maiden address to senior commanders of Sri Lanka’s military Lieutenant Senanayake said,
“Without compromising the national security concerns, we need to change our attitudes and mentality since the war is over now and we are now in post-conflict era. Before somebody directs us to do changes, we have to produce our own suggestions and take necessary action. I need to use two different criteria for the Officers and Other Ranks who served the Army before the year 2009 and afterwards. It’s a fair way to care for them.”
The lieutenant added that structural reforms may be introduced to the Army, caveating that moves would not be made to downsize the army but to instead “rightsize” the army.
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