Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annual military aid and an additional $300 million in economic assistance. Western intelligence agencies discount rumors that East German soldiers and pilots have periodically fought alongside southern African rebels or with the troops of Marxist states like Angola. But no one disputes the fact that East Germany's noncombat military role-as a provider of materiel and advisers-by now equals that of Cuba, and that its political role is even more active than Havana...