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Even in the best of times, Moscow was a militarized city, where officers in uniform rode the metro and army vehicles mingled with city traffic. But as tensions rise and visions of chaos begin to haunt the nation, jittery Muscovites have been paying more attention to all the soldiers in their midst...
...Vietnam. Aside from a few ill-timed sneers by Dan Quayle, no major public figure has maligned the patriotism of the antiwar protesters. Whatever one's personal views on the wisdom of the war, there is a collective sense of respect and obligation toward the men and women in uniform. Yes, the volunteer army means that the sacrifice of having a son, a relative, a friend in Saudi Arabia is shared unevenly. My own burden is scant. But class and caste also shielded people like me from the draft in the 1960s; for much of the Vietnam War, such social...
...have profited from his patronage, the soldiers holding down Kuwait are mainly conscripts, some of them as young as 17. According to defectors, many are anything but gung-ho to fight. War theorists make no distinction between a cynical professional soldier and an innocent, reluctant one. "Anyone in a uniform is a fair target," says Nicholas Fotion, a professor of military ethics at Emory University. But other analysts see a gray area. Says ethicist Robin Lovin, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School: "I'm not sure that carpet bombing conscripts is morally different from bombing civilians...
There are at least two ways to recognize a member of Iraq's Republican Guards. The first is the triangular red and gold patch worn on his uniform's shoulders. The second is more subtle but just as telling: a Republican Guard tends to look healthier than a regular soldier. No wonder: the guards are paid about 300 dinars a month (roughly $900) -- double the wages of an ordinary conscript -- and are pampered with such perks as free housing and free cars...
...Balts such an opening, the other rebellious republics will rush for it as well. And even if the President could bring himself to accept a little secession, the army and KGB would not. Now that he has been deserted by the reformers, he must rely on the men in uniform if he wants to stay in power. One of his advisers, Georgi Shakhnazarov, warned that if Gorbachev gave in to separatists he would be overthrown and replaced by a military dictatorship...