Hellenic Armed Forces in need of radical change now

It's time to wake up and put aside concerns about the accursed political cost if we want to get serious about the country's defense. It's been 23 years since the Imia crisis and we're still debating the obvious. We have been suddenly awakened from our deep slumber by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's behavior and our TV screens are now chock-full of retired army generals and other assorted non-experts as well as wannabe pundits on international affairs.

This is good in a sense because Greek society needs to become aware of the challenges it is facing and to develop a sharper a sense of reasonable and healthy patriotism.

That said, we must not lose ourselves in pursuit of imaginary saviors and magic solutions, because they simply don't exist and searching for them will inevitably lead to national disappointments. But let's move back to our subject. The Hellenic...