MODERNIZATION OF AZERI ARMY NOT MATTER OF SEVERAL MONTHS AND EVEN YEARS
PanARMENIAN.Net
17.10.2006 15:16 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Modernization of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan is
not a matter of several months and even years. The shortest way is
to transfer at least part of military detachments to forming on the
basis of a contract, as well as launching staff retraining programs
similar to Train and Equip, held in Georgia with the support of the
US analyst of Spectrum Center for Strategic Analysis Sergey Sargsyan
told PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, even Georgian experience shows
that making even a few battalions comply with NATO standards takes 2-3
years. Besides, as neither Armenia, nor NKR are not going to attack
anyone, the expenses for sustaining combat efficiency for a defense
doctrine will be lower," Sargsyan underscored.
At the same time he underscored that the complicated relief in the
conflict zone, deeply echeloned system of NKR Defense Army positions,
modern engineering fortification, impossibility for Azerbaijan to have
an advantage in the air in the foreseeable future allow sustaining
the current balance of power for a long period of time. "Although,
of course relaxing and hoping for the balance to be sustained by
itself is inadmissible. On the other hand this is rather the military
aspect, while the excessive financing of Azeri Defense Ministry at
the expense of social programs is the political one and it may arouse
wide discontent of the population," he said.