Word: civilianized
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Western Sovietologists warn against assuming that discontent within the military means that a coup is in the offing. There is no example of Bonapartism in Russian history, and the Soviet army has always been firmly under civilian control. "A lot of military people are distressed," says retired U.S. General William Odom, former chief of the National Security Agency who is now at the Hudson Institute, "but it would be a mistake to see the friction as evidence of coup thinking." In any case, he says, the brass is snapping back at its civilian critics with Gorbachev's permission, in order...
...brutal civil war, exultant crowds greeted them with flowers and handshakes. But when the last batch of 2,000 soldiers trooped onto a waiting ship at the eastern port of Trincomalee last week, completing a six- month withdrawal of 70,000 men, not a single civilian showed up to bid them goodbye. If the locals had anything to say to the "peace-keepers," whose presence brought not peace but one of the bloodiest chapters in Sri Lanka's already violent history, it was more like good riddance. Said A. Sivalingam, a retired senior government official in Trincomalee...
Both satellites were developed by state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries and were designed to be hurled into space by Israel's powerful rocket, the Shavit (Comet). I.A.I. is also working on a civilian communications satellite, called the Amos, which it hopes to send into orbit within two years...
Which we also won. And after which we demobilized again: 9 million men in the first year after the Japanese surrender. Stalin was slower to embrace the pleasures of civilian life. He kept 3 million men under arms, the U.S. half that number. Stalin kept a massive occupation force in Europe. The U.S. decided this time that leaving Europe entirely would be a mistake, so, having radically demobilized, we chose to stay on the cheap -- with nuclear weapons, an expediency that kept the world on the nuclear precipice for 40 years...
...contras will also require economic assistance if they are going to reintegrate successfully into society. After ten years in the mountains, the older guerrillas, many of whom were farmers, have lost the land they once tilled. The younger fighters know nothing but war, and must be trained for civilian jobs...