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After its formation, the Slovak Army went through turbulent changes and suffered from a critical shortage of officers and warrant officers, i.e. educators of Slovak soldiers. The officer and warrant officer ranks were supplemented from the civilian environment, which was not always sympathetic to the idea of an independent Slovak state. Officers and sergeants, not to mention the general duty men themselves,...