Why Congo’s vast army is struggling
ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...
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Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight a Far Smaller Militia
And successive presidents are said to have kept it weak for fear of a coup. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept ...
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Themistocles persuades Athens to build a powerful navy
When the Persian king, Xerxes, invaded Greece in the spring of 480 BC, he did so at the head of vast army. Once the Spartan force at Thermopylae had been defeated, his route by land to Athens was ...