Word: akhromeyev
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...Like the U.S. mission, the Red Army lacked sufficient troops in Afghanistan to control the countryside. "After seven years in Afghanistan, there is not one square kilometer left untouched by a boot of a Soviet soldier," Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the top Soviet military officer, said in November 1986. "But as soon as they leave a place, the enemy returns and restores it all back the way it used to be." (McChrystal's take: "The insurgents control or contest a significant portion of the country, although it is difficult to assess precisely how much due to a lack...
Some have insinuated that Marshal Akhromeyev was involved in the coup attempt. I have no way of knowing, but my instincts tell me he wasn't. He often spoke to me of his amazement that Americans believed that Soviet generals decided the course of his country's history, which he vigorously denied. At the same time he believed deeply in the need for a strong Soviet military...
Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev was my friend. His death last week by his own hand was a tragedy that mirrors the convulsions racking the Soviet Union. He was a communist, a patriot and a soldier, and my guess is that he would have listed his affiliations in that order. His entire life was spent in the service of the motherland and the party, beginning in 1940 when he enlisted in the army. World War II left an indelible stamp on him. Close to 80% of Soviet men born in 1923, the year of his birth...
...fierce patriotism and devotion to the party, Akhromeyev was a modern man who understood that many things were wrong with his country and much had to change if the Soviet Union was to remain a great power. He detested nuclear weapons and genuinely wanted to reach an agreement reducing long-range nuclear arsenals. He did much to bring a recalcitrant Soviet military to the bargaining table and decrease tensions between our forces...
...thought to have been in charge of Interior Ministry forces in the coup, is another likely target. Officers and civilians in the military- industrial complex, which has fought Gorbachev's efforts to convert more defense plants to civilian purposes, can be expected to fall as well. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, 68, former chief of staff of the Soviet armed forces and top military advisor to Gorbachev, committed suicide on Saturday night, though his link to the plot was not clear...