Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...additional $1 billion, however, might be needed for new weapons and equipment to upgrade the Pakistani armed forces. U.S. military experts believe that Pakistan's 430,000 troops are highly professional, tough, disciplined fighters. Says one top Washington analyst: "On an individual basis, the Pakistani soldiers are as good as any in the world. In terms of resisting small units of Soviets coming across a rough border with which the Pakistanis are entirely familiar, I think they'd give an extremely good account of themselves...
...Thus Soviet leaders probably felt that they had only two options: 1) to allow a Moscow-leaning socialist state on their border to dissolve into chaos and possibly pass into the hands of Muslim fanatics or 2) to move forcefully to take control of events. A Soviet foreign affairs analyst told TIME'S Nelan that "it was not easy for us to make this decision, but we were committed in Afghanistan from the beginning." Employing a rationale heard frequently in Washington in the 1960s to explain the growing U.S. presence in South Viet Nam, the Soviet official added: "Whether...
...ominous speculation that the ailing Soviet leader might now be acting under pressure from younger and more aggressive officials, or even that the long anticipated process of changing Soviet leadership might already be 5 under way. Most Soviet experts discounted such speculation, however. Said one West German Foreign Ministry analyst: "There is no evidence to indicate that Brezhnev has lost 8 control in Moscow." A Western expert in Moscow said: "Remember, this is basically the same leadership i that went into Czechoslovakia...
...return to Islamic law," as well as "those who sing the Communist Internationale instead of our national anthem." They showed their concern, too, over events in Afghanistan, expressing alarm over "developments in the Middle East [that] at any moment can develop into a hot war." As one Washington analyst summed up the Turkish military's entrance on the political stage, "The soldiers are telling the civilians that they have one last chance to put politics aside and look reality in the face...