Word: odom
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...times in rumors that the military was plotting a coup. Gromov has denied the possibility of such a move, and he downplayed suggestions that his combat experience alone earned him his new job. But the connection was too evident to ignore. "Gromov is a reliable trigger puller," says William Odom, a former head of the U.S. National Security Agency. "They put him in Interior Ministry ((because)) they can rely on him to put down demonstrations...
...positioned between the Kuwaiti border and the more than 200,000 American, British and French troops in Saudi Arabia, their commitment to an offensive would be no small matter. "The Arab forces complicate Saddam's problems if he chooses to go south," says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General William Odom, now an analyst with the Hudson Institute in Washington. "They complicate ours if we choose to go north...
...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...