Mr.Blacker’s marriage and ability to produce children is a long-term investment, it just keeps on growing like his tripe on his tiny little blog. His life is therefore of paramount interest to a long-term oriented person like myself.
David Blacker is a strong Sri Lankan man. He is from Srilanka’s younger generation. This is the generation that is rebellious and is sponsored by Viagra. It’s a generation that is currently fighting for its own country called Lankarmy.
David Blacker is not only a wannabe defense columnist but blog (not blogbuster) actor as well. He is an ardent supporter of idiots’ rights. As a member of the younger generation he does things differently. He cannot stand the abuse of idiots’ affairs.
Just recently in Vanni a man called Prabhakaran who had very little inside his skull got smoothly f**cked up by our little chap Fonseka & his clan. Fonseka had a good field day. And now the virile Fonseka wanted to strengthen his muscles obviously.
Some were sad, so they went and complained to idiots’ rights supporter David Blacker. David Blacker decided to do something about it. He decided to let his two cents out in his own way. His heart was bleeding at the sight of the idiots who possibly could be beaten up by Fonseka’s men.
David Blacker decided to activise. He kidnapped a white pigeon and put the pigeon on his head and then he started singing a song called MASAKALI. To this song he performed the ancient Indian dance of KATHAKALI.
By singing masakali and doing kathakali with a pigeon on his head he has shown the country that every tom dick and harry’s two cents are important. David Blacker has also shown that the citizens of Sri Lanka can protest against things that require protesting not by marching from Point A to Point B with banners but dancing with pigeons on our heads.
Because only if we dance with pigeons on our heads can peace and justice be achieved and can we truly be called PIGEONHEADS.
And now we know somebody who wants to be a PIGEON HEAD is Goththu’s holy resident defense journalist David Blacker.
This Fonseka man is all virile and energetic. On his interview he said something about the figures and numbers of his proud men.
Now I don’t understand this. Here's the thing. David Blacker's fragile sentiments have been hurt because general Fonseka says "I want to strengthen my army carders." David Blacker writes a factually baseless post and some of us are mislead by this rather ambiguous post.
The thing is that just because David Blacker wrote his post because of his bloated ego and two cents on all affairs that is military, doesn’t mean the rest of the world can’t see what he actually wrote. David can fool some but not me; I’m the world’s 136755892182nd intelligent woman. I can crack his head in one single minute if I want.
Therefore this humble twenty-year-old girl will now show the world the truth and set the record straight.
Appalling stupidity. Absolute blasphemy. As I read his post here, I am dumbfounded to see David Blacker break every rule of basic common sense. Take a couple of instances for example:
He concludes "I know it’s nuts. I know it’s impractical. I know we can’t really afford it" Now WHY is it nuts? Please explain.
The poor guy adds in the comments about how redundant workers from Apparel industry can be re-employed. If I’m not mistaken I passed my grade five exams at Wycherley where I managed to learn “Apparel Industry in Srilanka employs 95% women” Sheeeeesh... David, I don’t think Mr.Fonseka was referring to increasing women corps or even finding beautiful brides for those eligible bachelors now that the war is over and they can all sleep peacefully. Get your facts correct will ya?
In another instance (but primarily to be precise), our holy defense analyst suggests that we will be among the Top 10 Armies in the world if the numbers were increased to whatever levels required. Duh….. Isn’t that obvious? You increase the number, Up goes your ranking. Pretty basic? Perhaps comprehension is what David lacks. But anyway, should numbers matter? Why? Please explain.
As for me, we are already Number ONE in the world for the simple reason that we managed to do the impossible, one that the whole world thought we weren’t capable of. Talk quality and not quantity. Come to think of it, quality also refers to true patriotism of our soldiers, one that cannot be measured in terms of salary, benefits and pension schemes. So we are already Number one. Aren’t we? Where then is the question of Top 10? How did it arise in the first place?
Then, our hero of stupidity (in his reply to a commentator) says Wikepedia is mostly unreliable. Yeah….. So here is an alternate source. Check whatever you want here. In terms of rapid recruitment we are already number three.
Hello! Tamil Diaspora guys with venom, you’ve got more goats to slay. But before you do, you’ve got to love Kottu and more precisely Mr. David Blacker. He’s your official intelligence from ground zero.
You do not need to be a defense analyst to understand the basic premise of our Army, which starts with protecting victims first whilst doing its best to ensure it doesn’t occur in the first place.
Remember this is a blogsphere, where in all likelihood, every blogger has an iota of intelligence to say the least. We needn’t have been in Section 2, Recce Group Charlie, 6th Sinha Rifles. KIA, July 1991, Elephant Pass. All we need is common sense. And sorry I’m not 19 till I die. I age. I grow up.
David Blacker is an ex-soldier who left the army long ago according to his book. Looks like the idiot analyst has not learnt anything since then.
Oh, he has a lame excuse pronouncing that he is not arguing for or against it, and therefore it is okay to write his tripe. Like hell!
All you confused folks, an army in the broadest sense, is the land-based armed forces of a nation. Army and Armed forces are two different entities. Former is a part of the latter like all mothers are women, but not all women are mothers. He didn’t clarify this basic point in his post, but thanks to him, he however clarified when some equally confused souls starting commenting in a state of confusion. But glad he clarified. Hats off to him for getting it correct after his prolonged confusion.
In Srilankan context, as in most other countries Armed forces would include but not limited to army, navy, air force and police whilst the Ministry of Defense also looks after State Intelligence Service, Kotelawala Defense University, Defense Services Command and Staff College, National Cadet Corps, Department of Immigration & Emigration, Department of Registration of Persons, Department of Civil Defense (formerly the Home Guard Service), The National Dangerous Drugs Control Board, Ranaviru Seva Authority etc….
The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is responsible for land-based military and humanitarian operations. Enough said.
David Blacker insists and implies that "it is past time to increase the end-strength of the Army"
Let me respond.
As a political matter and as a strategic impulse, this is long overdue. But it is only a starting point. In the near term, given the stresses of economy and the deleterious effects of more than three decade of war, almost any plan to expand land forces will help.
But the larger project of rebuilding or strengthening the Army to sustain the demands of a new era will require as much thought as money. To properly size and shape Sri Lankan land forces so that the Armed forces and the Army complement each other, we must answer five questions.
1- What is the Mission?
During the War, the classic question for defense planners was, How much is enough? The unstated assumption was that the strategic goal was to contain LTTE aggression. Since the death of evil creature called Prabhakaran, the question for Mr.Fonseka has been, what do you want us to do? Without a broader understanding of the missions for Srilankan ground forces, Army planners won't know how much is enough or even what kind of forces are needed.
Essentially, We won't do land wars anymore. This leads to my second question. If so,
2- What Kind of War?
The Sri Lankan ability and willingness to project power abroad is filtered through a new, post- 18/5 prism.
3- What Kind of Force?
4- How Much Is Enough?
The experience of the past years has at least taught us how much is not enough.
5- The Costs
It would also cost a lot of money. Just how much depends not only on the number of troops but the nature of their equipment etc... and that's an equally important question to ponder.
If we can answer these five questions, still that big an increase cannot be achieved overnight. It will take many months, and many millions of dollars, to recruit, train and equip these men and women. Every 10 added will cost millions in annual upkeep, plus tens of billions in one-time recruitment and equipment expenses.
But all the needed money can be found by reordering priorities within the defense budget. Thanks to years of hefty budget increases, there is no shortage of defense dollars. They just need to go where the actual wars are. Contrary to most pre 18/5 predictions, Srilankan forces will now be engaged in nation-building operations.
A jump in the size of the Army should take place regardless of the end of war. In the post May 18th Sri Lanka, the Army must be prepared to deploy to multiple theaters, while still guarding against the rise of a strategic threat such as Diaspora. Quick military fixes are unlikely to work in Srilanka; as with the Army, it would be better to focus on fashioning a sustainable long-term strategy. One that will be the backbone of Srilanka as we march forward towards becoming a super power with nuclear capacity by 2030.
This is not my grandiose dream for I believe dreams are possible.
Now that this post is out, David Blacker might now write a special award winning post to discuss how General Fonseka should recruit his men.
But I will be watching David Blacker hosting THE BLACKLIGHT PIGEONS.
(PS: This is not a personal attack on any individual or a community. Opinions expressed are solely mine. This post is open for criticism. Thanks)