Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Romanian Land Forces/Archive 1

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Romanian Land Forces

Well-referenced article with excellent visuals, graphics and images. It just have been promoted to GA. Eurocopter tigre 11:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. The article doesn't explain the origin or formation of the Romanian land forces that I can see. You might also check out the Australian Defence Force for some other subject areas you could include in the article, although I don't think you necessarily have to. Otherwise it seems fine but I'll wait to see if there is information available on the origin of the forces before I decide how to vote. CLA 02:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment; United States Marine Corps and Russian Ground Forces are the gold standard for articles of this type at the moment; both are FA. I second Cla68's thoughts on 1860-1914- needs to be a section on that. Also there should be a section on the post-communist adjustments; right now the article skips from 1989 to about 2006-7 in one leap. More work is also needed on prospective roles, tasking and structure for the RLF during the Cold War. What did it consist of? Was it under Soviet command fully? Would it have been part of a Soviet blitzkrieg into Yugoslavia or Italy? Buckshot06 11:45, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

• Buckshot, actually, during the Ceausescu regime, the Romanian Army wasn't commanded by the soviets at all; citing from the Prague Spring article: A more pronounced effect took place in Communist Romania, where leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, already a staunch opponent of Soviet influences and one to have declared himself on Dubček's side, held a public speech in Bucharest on the day of the invasion, depicting Soviet policies in harsh terms. While Romania engaged briefly on the same side of the barricade as Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia, the alliance was purely conjectural (as Ceauşescu was already proving to be opposed on principle to Socialism with a human face). It did however consolidate Romania's independent voice the next decades, especially after Ceauşescu encouraged the population to take up arms in order to meet any similar maneuver in that country: he received an enthusiastic initial response, with many people who were by no means communist willing to enroll in the newly-formed paramilitary Patriotic Guards. Also, a "Beginings" subsection was made in the history section. Regarding the cold war period structure, it was imposible for me to find any reliable source, however, during the communist regime the structure of the army was clasiffied. --Eurocopter tigre 17:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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