A country’s military influenced by both US and USSR

What if a country’s military received tutorship from both the US and USSR, and is able to withhold calls by either to exclude the other’s influence, how would it look like?

I’m more interested in structural and cultural influences. Say, a country has both American style Marine Corp and Soviet-style marine infantry?
 
Austria, which had both US (for example Arnold Schwartzenegger's tank) and Soviet equipment? Maybe the joint training might be included within the accords to end the occupation?
 

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What if a country’s military received tutorship from both the US and USSR, and is able to withhold calls by either to exclude the other’s influence, how would it look like?

I’m more interested in structural and cultural influences. Say, a country has both American style Marine Corp and Soviet-style marine infantry?
so something like egypt otl
 
wouldn't that be an entirely avoidable duplication of services?
The likely motivation to do this would be for political reasons: i.e. to foster rivalries and divert opposition to the regime, or to build up parallel services loyal to a regime or political party rather than to the state. It isn't actually that far-fetched. Recall that Saddam's Iraq had the Republican Guard in addition to the regular army (though both mostly used Soviet equipment). Of course, another motivation could just be an overly-bloated military-industrial complex. In the Soviet Union, the Air Force and Air Defense Forces were separate branches of the military.
 
Ww2 German military docrine, not Soviet IMO.

First time I hear about it, but given their aversion to protracted engagements, Blitzkrieg is definitely what they would do.

To the matter at hand, I think some former Warsaw Pact countries now in NATO still retain Soviet materiel. Or perhaps that was phased out years ago?
 
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