This order clearly provides the authority if not the pretexts for a crackdown by Soviet forces.
Importantly, Vietnam provides significant military facilities to Soviet forces in Cambodia (Kompong Som) and Vietnam (Cam Ranh, Danang).
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Its old name is inseparable from the ferocious battle won by Soviet forces 70 years ago this week.
Britain's previous ambassador to Afghanistan left Kabul when Soviet forces invaded in 1979.
Georgy Zhukov led the Soviet forces in all the decisive battles that decided the outcome of the war on the Eastern Front.
They are not particularly troubled that their actions might produce asymmetrical results in U.S. and Soviet forces or that verification would be problematic.
While admitting having taken part in fighting against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Mr Hamza denies any formal contacts with al-Qaeda.
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Of greatest concern, however, are the misapprehensions the apparent reuniting as allies of American and Soviet forces would create among Western publics and governments.
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Yet in some countries, Czechoslovakia for example, Soviet forces were initially welcomed as liberators, and Stalinist regimes took power with a degree of popular consent.
It is simply not prudent policy to eviscerate the U.S. defense budget in the expectation that promised cuts in Soviet forces will become evident down the road.
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They like to point out, too, that America has abandoned them before, cutting aid and military support when Soviet forces left Afghanistan at the end of the 1980s.
This is true even in Czechoslovakia, notwithstanding an agreement recently signed by Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel in which the Soviets promise to rupture certain intelligence ties and remove Soviet forces.
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The fundamental strategic problem of the era was deterring central conflict between the two superpowers and their alliances, while still dealing with regional conflicts against Soviet forces or regional proxies.
The name al-Qaeda (the base) dates from the mid-1980s, when Mr bin Laden was playing a prominent role in the American-backed war against the Soviet forces who were occupying Afghanistan.
Between June 22, 1941, the day Germany invaded Russia, and June 6, 1944, D Day, ninety-three per cent of German military casualties 4.2 million missing, wounded, or killed were inflicted by Soviet forces.
The Safy Mountain range is of strategic importance because it overlooks the Bagram air base, which was built by Soviet forces during the Soviet Union's war with Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Such Deutsche mark-based payments and credits would pay for continued Soviet oil and gas deliveries to East Germany, all trade and service obligations and the stationing of Soviet forces on German soil.
But by the time they set foot on Australian soil, Gyarmati and his teammates were informed of a brutal turn of events as Soviet forces ruthlessly reasserted their grip on the Hungarian capital.
One prominent facet of such a structure would be an agreement to continue the presence of Soviet forces in East Germany with the West Germans obliged to pay for the privilege of such an occupation.
It is noteworthy that just today, U.S. officials have indicated that Soviet forces in East Germany have been placed in a higher state of readiness, but aver that this action appears to be of a defensive character.
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At the very least, freely elected governments throughout Eastern Europe ought to be in place and given an opportunity to express their attitudes toward the continued presence of Soviet forces in their territory before the CFE deal is finalized.
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Why, after the hopeful beginning of the transitions to democracy and self-determination in Eastern Europe, should the United States and its allies continue to seek essentially equal levels of U.S. and Soviet forces in Europe, when the latter are seen as occupation forces and their "hosts" want them out fast?
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Finally even if one believes the Soviets will honor their commitments to make arms cuts and that no build-up in Soviet forces will ensue until the cuts have been faithfully implemented it is simply wrongheaded to think the United States will be advantaged should Moscow decide to resume its campaign to accrue military power.
Effective deterrence in the future will require a resilient U.S. capability to counter the effects of sustained past growth in Soviet strategic forces and to address the future dynamism of the Soviet threat (as well as the impact of missile proliferation around the globe).
The Soviet armed forces' appetite for sophisticated "dual-use" technology vastly exceeds Moscow's ability to pay for it.
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Deployments and modernization continues apace throughout all areas of the Soviet armed forces.
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Another important variable is the pace and completeness of the withdrawal of Soviet occupation forces from Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
For example, Gershwin expressed concern over the reliability of command and control of the former Soviet nuclear forces given the political turmoil in Moscow.
Technical support should be offered to republics wishing to obtain a "dual-key" or "multiple-key" veto over the use of Soviet nuclear forces on their territory.
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