25 years ago #SouthAfrica's army was the most feared in SSA. Today, it gets whacked by a rag-tag bunch in CAR? cc @Ramah_Nyang
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@calestous Are you sure? Rwanda did a-OK in DRC. Even walked all the way to Kinshasa & killed kabila snr@Ramah_Nyang -
@coldtusker@Ramah_Nyang There's exceptional cases which is why l used "often".
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@calestous@coldtusker@Ramah_Nyang Heh, heh, and when they meet real fire, drop their guns, get rid of uniforms and flee! -
@cobbo3 Seems swathes of Francophone Africa learnt from the French. Never fired, dropped once ;-)@calestous@Ramah_Nyang
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@calestous The distinction@coldtusker alluded to was in RoE between proper military ops, and 'peacekeeping' rolesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@calestous Not always. SADF's apartheid-era predecessor ran some strong cross border ops.@coldtuskerThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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