31.   Tudjman is also increasingly confident of Croat military prowess.

32.   According to Philippe, the Bosnian government victory owed more to desertion by opposition troops than to Bosnian military prowess.

33.   Allowing for hyperbole, there is more than a grain of truth in this assertion -- at least as far as Taliban belief in their military prowess is concerned.

34.   But Moore said that the movement lacked a strong central leadership and that its advance resulted more from defections of local commanders than from military prowess.

35.   RENAMO, on the other hand, had a rag-tag army -- many of them pressganged youngsters -- known more for its brutality than its military prowess.