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General Gabriel also envisioned the need for pushing the Air Force toward better cooperation with the Army and toward a better working relationship at the lowest levels between airmen and soldiers . The four Caspian States are far behind Russia in terms of the number of military forces stationed in the region , but they are trying hard to catch up . It seems clear to me that we all must continue to balance these kinds of budget pressures always looking forward and toward improving our aerospace capabilities . Looking back AirLand Battle was a first step toward what we now call Joint doctrine . In its second annual world press freedom report , the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders ranked Turkmenistan 158th out of 166 countries reviewed , behind - - - North Korea , China , Burma , and Iran . Kissinger recently said the country has two irreconcilable penchants , a penchant for military involvement all around the globe and yet a mindset to avoid casualties at all costs . At the conclusion of a major oil and gas conference in Ashgabat last week , on September 26 , Oil , Gas and Mineral Resources Minister Tacherdy Tagyev made the startling announcement that Turkmenistan intended to raise the share of foreign companies in the country 's overall gas and oil output from its current level at roughly 8 percent to 50 percent by 2005 . The resolution calls among other things for the immediate release of all prisoners of conscience , thorough investigation of deaths and torture of persons in custody , registration of opposition groups and cessation of harassment of civil society activists . Although Deputy Chairman of the People 's Council Saparov attended in his stead , the president 's last-minute cancellation will undoubtedly be seen as a defiant assertion of Turkmenistan 's independence from the Commonwealth , at least in the short term . Among the capacities of the hardware it was said that the Turkmen Armed Forces are equipped with Grad BM , Uragan and Luna-M tactical missiles capable of tracking and hitting any target within a range of up to 100 km . The conference is to be held at the Serdar oil and gas complex ; equipment and technology from foreign and domestic manufacturers will be exhibited in the halls of Turkmenistan 's Trade and Industry Chamber . Although he made no speech during the review , President Niyazov used these public occasions to remark on Turkmenistan 's foreign policy and on its slow progress toward protection of human rights . Analyze out of family data just as rigorously as you would out of spec. Often times , out of family is giving a stronger message even than out of spec may be . Not long ago , at the meeting related with the work of the railway branch , Saparmurat Turkmenbashi the Great determined works to be carried out by this branch in the near future as following : " Ashgabat - Dashoguz highway and railway must be put into operation until 2005 . Likewise , a local source reports that heavy road control made entry into and out of the city virtually impossible during the period immediately before the Independence Day holiday , on October 27 . Among domestic developments , President Niyazov sacked and threatened with punishment through " corrective labor " the mayor of the city of Turkmenbashi ( formerly Krasnovodsk ) , whom he accused of embezzlement . I might also point out that our group , when we briefed this out to Lockheed Martin , really pointed out that the flyout plan in our view should not be a Lockheed Martin flyout plan . Although the higher pay raises , pay table reform and return of the 50 percent retirement are clearly the right things to do - - and things that we must do for our people - - we must now pay for all of that out of hide . Of course we lived with them for 74 years and we have learnt a lot from them in the sense of education and knowledge , because we were a bit behind progress then . " The meeting , which was co-sponsored by the Memorial Human Rights Center and the International League for Human Rights , is the third since a dialogue among opposition groups began in June 2002 . In the morning , awaiting the customers , vendors got behind the counters and spread out their goods . Among other restrictions , Article 19 bans anyone other than " servants of religious organisations " from wearing " cult vestments " in public places .