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Promising to replace Traore's "bloodthirsty and corrupt regime" with multiparty democracy, the coup leaders quickly formed a 17-man National Reconciliation Council headed by Lieut. Colonel Amadou Toumani Toure, 43, commander of the parachute forces. The council has announced plans to form a 25-member interim administration, which will hold multiparty elections by 1992. But democracy still faces a stiff challenge in this drought-prone nation of 8 million, one of the world's poorest countries. While the coup brought the chance of greater freedom, it also continued the pattern of violent overthrows plaguing the continent...
...reformers in the Soviet officer corps admit as much in public. Colonel Alexander Tsalko, former director of an air force training center and now a member of the Soviet parliament, says Iraq's defeat shows that Soviet military doctrine and the structure of its forces are obsolete. "Some military authorities in this country," he says, "still believe that the outcome of a war is determined by the clash of huge ground forces." That is "madness," he says, because the outcome in the gulf was determined by air power; Iraqi troops had no choice but to "keep their noses buried...
...armed forces have undergone a top-to-bottom transformation since the end of Vietnam. Nowadays, says U.S. Air Force Academy spokesman Colonel Mike Wallace, "the military is a different breed of cat. It is no longer a place to hide society's misfits; it represents a large section of America's middle class, who are better informed and better trained than before." Today every man and woman entering the armed forces has at least a high school diploma, and nearly all officers have earned at least a bachelor's degree in subjects ranging from political science to European history. Lieut...
...nonalcoholic beer and practicing the steps to a new Marine-invented dance, the "Gas Mask Rag," the outside diversion is welcomed. "It is very important to keep up morale in the midst of such a lonely and isolating experience as a war in a desert," says Army Lieut. Colonel Robert Dawson, deputy director of the military broadcasting center in Los Angeles, which gathers the bulk of its programming from U.S. radio and TV stations. The armed forces usually pay a small fee for entertainment, but scores of producers and show-biz executives are donating their programs. Both the Super Bowl...
Most of the Iraqi prisoners are conscripts or enlisted men of low rank, in their 20s. About 5% are low-ranking officers; the highest is an infantry lieutenant colonel. But none are from Saddam's most formidable unit, the 150,000-man Republican Guard. From interrogating these soldiers, usually through volunteer Kuwaiti interpreters, the allies have developed a richly detailed picture of the Iraqi army's condition. Items...