Ur right, all I see is a blame game and we forget we r part of that.
Ur analogy sounds intresting but when it comes to 2 billion population, its not just shortage of army officers but shortage of lot of things. Prime thing being education... When we talk of america, basic education is free. so, I think education can take care of most of the concerns that we talk of.
As far as already educated ppl minting money is concerned, I think (I may be wrong) more than 50% give back in the form of service or indirectly by some means, and some end up giving a lot without knowledge (atleast part of there life). And many go back.
SSB is a nice thing that u have suggested. I personally know many of my friends going for that. I myself wrote SSB (never got selcted, thats a different matter).