President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday signed the retirement orders of 164 military generals.

The Presidential Palace said the aim of this was to bring reforms to the defense ministry and to provide opportunities to younger officers.

The defense ministry said currently there are 5,000 educated youths who have applied to join the defense force.

Defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said the move would allow the ministry to employ some of these applicants.  

In this episode of the program host Nemat Rawan discusses the topic with the following guests: 

Ghafar Gardizi, military analyst 
Dawlat Waziri, MoD spokesman 
Hekmatullha Hekmat, military analyst 
Hashim Alkozai, Senate Defense Commission Chairman