The new chiefs of staff of the Armed Forces, announced following a Government Council for National Security (KYSEA) on Friday, are being called upon to serve “the government’s new approach for national security,” National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said.
A new defense dogma, he added, “will increase the deterrence capabilities for every threat, and will boost our role in the greater region.”
The new approach, he explained, consists of three basic pillars “a national effort for the effective armoring of our homeland against every form of threat, conventional or hybrid.” These are the complete overhaul of the structure and operation of the Armed Forces (into a modern, flexible, and operationally effective form); the armaments systems of the Armed Forces (updating the armaments program, taking into account lessons from Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, including technologically advanced solutions with a good cost-benefit ratio); and the human resources of the Armed Forces (upgrading members’ training on the basis of the Finnish model, retraining at regular intervals on a voluntary basis, improving living conditions for officers).
Included in the second pillar is the founding of the Hellenic Center for Defense Research and Innovation Development, which will fund the production of means the Armed Forces have planned while strengthening the Greek defense industry and the country’s economy and also collaborating with the Greek shipping industry.
On behalf of the government, Dendias thanked the outgoing Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, General Konstantinos Floros, for his long service, and the chiefs of staff of the Army (Lt General Angelos Hodeloudis), Navy (Vice-Admiral Dimitrios-Eleftherios Kataras), and Air Force (Air Marshal Dimosthenis Grigoriadis).
