Armenian general calls for new military partners, more mobile army

Ayots Ashkar, Yerevan
11 Jun 04

headlined “What kind of army do we need?”

Gen Arkadiy Ter-Tadevosyan (Komandos [Commando]) has said that
Azerbaijan has now started a process of building up its military
potential and is gradually emerging from the former period of
stagnation.

Judging from this reality, Ter-Tadevosyan thinks that as well as
preserving military and political union with Russia, Armenia should
at the same time start active moves towards military cooperation with
other powers. In future it will be necessary for us to reorganize
the army to make it much more mobile. The general said that the
whole contemporary world is moving in this direction, as it is not
fruitful to keep a big army. It is better to have comparatively small,
but mobile and technically equipped, armed forces.