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Article: EU's TACIS program retraining the Red Army. (Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States)
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- February 1, 1994
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War games to business plans. That's the heart of an innovative project sponsored by the European Union which aims to transform 16,000 officers of the former Soviet "Red" Army into business executives.
Altogether, some two hundred thousand officers of what has been one of the world's largest and most professional armies are to be demobilized within the next two years as peace continues to break out between East and West.
These former military officers represent important human capital. A carefully selected and carefully prepared elite, their talents could provide the backbone of a new managerial infrastructure in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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