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U.S. forces are returning to the comforts of home, and some are receiving offers of cash incentives to separate. Their counterparts' version is more often than not a cot in a tent city. "There's no room for the troops and families they are bringing back from Eastern Europe," said Army Col. David M. Glantz, director of the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. "They are coming back to a society that has nothing for them to do and nowhere for them to stay." The Foreign Military Studies Office succeeds the Soviet Army Studies Office. The staff bases its studies totally on unclassified documents from the Commonwealth of Independent States. Glantz has been with the organization since it was founded in Glantz said the former Soviet military suffers from two basic problems. The first is its eroded political position it has gone from being one of the institutions in the country to fragments trying to find their niches in their new countries. The second problem is the impact of the commonwealth's myriad economic, ethnic and social problems on the military. Officials neglected these issues for years, and now the military must pay, Glantz said. "The whole (former Soviet Union) is a basket case," he pre-emine- 1986. Understanding the past To appreciate what has happened to the former Soviet forces, one must understand what they were before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Glantz said. "The Soviet military was an elite," he stated. "Career officers received good quarters, had special stores and received the respect of the populace." Military role uncertain The very role of the military is uncertain. The nations of the commonwealth do not have democratic traditions and, Glantz said, they are feeling their way toward understanding how the military'' fits in. "So far, it appears the military will remain subservient to civilian political control," he said. "But there are large numbers of generals and officers dissatisfied with the state of affairs. So far, their dissatisfaction has not led to military coups." When the Commonwealth of Independent States was formed, there were It reached into every village and hamlet. At one point, the army was seen as a road to upward mobility. That's gone now." m . . ' noted. The pay, while not in the same range as American service members', was adequate, and gave career soldiers and their families the chance to afford a style of living the general populace could not. "The military was a unifying force within the Soviet Union," Glantz said. "It was one of the few organizations that cut across nationalities. nt a cellular phone, you In touch from whereever you are, be it rush hour traffic or a lonely girder 30 stories up. can keep t: And, service from US WEST Cellular makes everything you say sound clearer. Even If It's all Just talk. ESI mi sbm C miBM Mwii i C3 he said. 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"Germany had a large body of unemployed, unhappy troops looking for scapegoats and joining radical organizations. They called themselves the Freikorps. In Germany, these soldiers gave rise to the Nazis. Although no one wishes or expects this to occur, the possibility exists that the Commonwealth of Independent States may experience something like this." The Soviet military was based on a draft, but that source has dried up. Glantz said there has been a considerable drop in the number of men reporting for military service. "Desertion rates are up also, and there is hardly a day without a report in the press about charges of brutality," he said. "A rise in drug and alcohol abuse is indicative of the deteriorating morale. The situation is so uncertain that what's really happening in many places is anyone's guess." Lf Put less money where your mouth is. I With Economic effects plans for centralized control of the military. The states, however, could never agree on a structure. 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