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Hungary Purges Many High-ranking O's
From the Hungary Daily News
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In January, the government accepted a decree allowing to send even high-ranking military officers into retirement. Then media outlets reported about more than a hundred generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, etc., the defence minister has sacked. Based on the sources of the Válasz Online, the government will not stop. They are prepared to send away even more military officers, but the media outlet believes that is not an anti-NATO step.
More than 110 officers sent into retirement.
Válasz Online, a Hungarian independent news outlet using only the donations of its readers, shared many details about the first wave of ‘grand sacking’ in the Hungarian Defence Forces. They also wrote some names in their recent article concerned with ‘forced retirement’. One of them, for example, is the deputy commander of the KFOR (Kosovo Force, the NATO’s biggest mission), brigadier general János Szpisják.
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However, the ‘purge’, or the rejuvenation, as minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky calls it, will not stop. The unit commanders are next who will rank their subordinates concerning the following points:
professionalism
international experience
language knowledge
physical state
performance evaluation
The maximum number of points is 9. People getting at least six can remain in the military.
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Oh, snap! Could it be there's some retrofit along meritocracy?
A companion article explores the level of "OMG!"  going on in NATO over this, amid shrieks in Hungary that NATO might kick them out.
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