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Achieving qualitative superiority: - Greek conscription and the Turkish threat

4 Mar 2022

Likewise, the collapse of the Nixon Presidency, French geopolitical among other factors to be sure, circumscribed the ability of the US in 1973-74, to contain priorities, in Syria the Cyprus crisis, notwithstanding the fact that Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus brought to and Libya respectively, and the brink of an all-out war Greece and Turkey, an event that would have completely 4 which has formally. [...] component relate to both the length Breaking down the prerequisites of constituting a battlefield efficient Army, comprised of of the conscription professionals and conscripts, it is worth quoting at length the key markers: service as well as to the quality of conscripts’ training “Which skills are emphasised in training? regardless of the length of service. [...] A very good example of the qualitative edge A rare, in its frankness, interview with a retired Special Forces officer is highly relevant in accruing from its observations on the repercussions of such lack of combat experience in the battlefield participation of effectiveness of Greece’s Army, all of which have a bearing on the quality of training of units of the Greek its conscript component28: Ar. [...] The roll out of the AFCT has been delayed due to COVID 19 but its broadly positive reception bears testimony to the centrality of a suitable physical fitness regime for the world’s most advanced Army.31 As a proxy for evaluating the state of physical fitness of the Greek conscript component, we investigated the status of physical fitness training in the professional component, our assumption being. [...] We would include in these skills […] is not expenses the creation of a single basic training center for the totality of the Army’s innate to the conscript intake (indicatively the US Army has only four such centers in the whole of the Greek nation but continental US and the UK Army only one) co-located with a newly-constituted Center rather can only be a product of for Initial Military Training.

Authors

Maria Androulaki

Pages
26
Published in
Greece