Army career - Utilitarian approach or nobility personified

I hold the view that the Indian army is losing its effectiveness. Slowly,but surely. Bad organisational practices e.g. corruption and using the organisation ( read subordinates) to further ones career are on the rise. The question that confronts us is this -Why are officers not doing their bit to stop it? If complaining means curtains for their careers, so be it. If they expect their soldiers to risk their lives, why are they not ready to risk even their careers?

There are two views on this phenomenon.

1. View 1 - Abhishek Bachhan's movie ' Guru', can be used by OD (Organisational Dynamics/Development) practitioners to understand what goes on in organisations. The most instructive scene is towards the end when his company was charged with several financial misdeeds and he had to appear before some committee ( Roshan Seth as chairman ) to answer charges. Guru (enacting the saga of Sri Dhirubhai Ambani ), the controversial but eminently successful industrialist, says -
' I came poor to Mumbai to do business and found all doors closed. Some needed a kick ( unfair means ) to open, others needed a salaam ( chaploosi, corruption ) to open. I kicked the ones that called for a kick, I did salaam to the ones that asked for salaam. Because that was the only way to do business. And, as I said, I had come to Mumbai to do business. And now you guys say - This guy kicks too much, this guys does too much of salaam. Why so? Did you allow me any other way to do business'
In the same vein, officers join the army to make a career. If the only way to make a career is by foul means, how can you blame them for using those means. Just like the motivation for the businessman is to make more money and not to clean up the system, the motivation for the fauzi is to make a career and not to keep blowing the whistle.You set up a system where being honest pays and people will be honest.

View 2 - The army is a not a career; it is an institution. If fauzis also wish to be guided by market forces, they have no business to claim the high moral ground that they always do.

So, which of the two views seem right to you?

As for me, I see no need to choose between them. View 1 is a model of how humans/organisations work, View 2 is what the army would like things to be.