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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Richard Boudreaux, Russia's Fading Army Fights Losing Battle to Reform
Itself. Wall Street Journal, Apr 20, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240
52748703678404575636412726670020.html
Quote:
"Combat training consisted of two firing exercises a year, he [a
professional soldier] says, and a chunk of his paycheck was routinely
withheld by corrupt officers.
"Two decades after the Cold War ended, China is engaged in a military
buildup that has many of its neighbors, including Russia, scrambling to
bolster their defenses.
"Russia relies mainly on its nuclear arsenal to project power and protect
its territory.
"The land, air and naval forces Mr. Putin inherited when he became president
in 2000 were a pale shadow of the Red Army, five million strong at the time
of the Soviet Union's breakup in 1991. They stand at one-fifth that size
today. |
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