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The report said Kony is being forced to move almost every other day. Perhaps an actual end is near.

The first thing I thought of is who is paying for those 5,000 troops.

The second thing I thought of was a joint force with Congolese troops mixed in; that should be interesting.

You're right.

It is damned interesting all those you tube views and I wonder what it portends for the future.

Something occurred to my cynical side about this video. It is coming out, hopefully, late in the LRA game and if Kony is killed this year or next, the producers of this video will be able to use...

If they do realize that, they don't say it in the video. They kept speaking of "arresting" Kony. They avoided saying anything about having to kill him. Nor did they say anything about walking...

That video on the LRA has had over 11 million, that's million, hits in just the last few days I believe. My 14 year old nephew heard about it on Facebook and now is interested.

It is quite a...

Here is link that goes to the LRA Crisis Tracker 2011 report.

http://www.lracrisistracker.com/media/report/annual-security-brief-2011

LRA activities are down, especially recently, thank God.
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M-A: I read this report last week and it seemed to conclude that the hunt for the LRA has slowed because Uganda, South Sudan, Congo and the CAR are just not that interested anymore. There is no...

Peter Singer wrote a very good book called Children at War that covers that. The methods by which they take charge of the child's mind seem almost standardized and are extremely effective. Once the...

Ken:

I've decided to stop making fool of myself. Everything you say makes a lot of sense and, upon re-reading, a lot of what I say doesn't; especially since I think I mixed up the rocket/# of...

Ken:

To my completely untrained civilian mind, a "straight up small unit patrol action" is a small unit walking through the forest looking for another small unit and they have a fight.

I yield...

Ken:

I am going to go as far out on a limb as a 4 eyed 4F pencil necked geek forever a civilian can go on when talking about this with somebody with your experience, so far out I'll commence...

All I can say is that a professional soldier who was in a position to know, indicated that they weren't so good. And it wasn't all that unusual for MONUC forces to get beat up like that.

Maybe a...

Yes actually. When those guys got beat up by the LRA I asked a British LTC working for MONUC how that could have happened. All he would tell me was "Well, there are special forces...and then there...

Ken:

Ok. I'll buy that as far as forces better suited for killing the LRA. Would the Kenyans actually be willing to commit that force to that mission? I was thinking something like Executive...

That is about how I remember his description of palm wine, which means it may be at wild variance with reality. He also said it was extremely dependent on at what stage you took it from the tree.
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Given that the purpose is killing Mr. Kony and killing or scaring into submission his minions, what organization would be more capable of doing this humanitarian mission?

Bob's World: Probably...

I think it might be helpful to note that the Ugandan army ejected the LRA from Uganda several years ago. The area where the LRA operates now is a very long way from the Ugandan border.

Rush...

At its' heart, it is a humanitarian mission. In that part of the world, the most effective humanitarian assistance that can be given is to kill some people dead. Ergo, the SF is the most capable...

Bob's World:

They have nothing at all to do with AQ. They are not a threat to anybody much except the local people they massacre by the hundreds regularly.

I don't know what TSOC or GCC mean.

The whole circumstance allowing the LRA to exist is unique. I don't think a group like that could exist anywhere else.

Near as I can figure, you don't think this is a good idea.

What are they?

This won't be anything like El Salvador because the situations are not all the same and the LRA isn't anything like the FMLN. The FMLN was, I believe, a classic (as much as anything can be)...

I only know a very little about how the SF would work this. Can somebody give an outline of what they would do to assist the various forces involved? Would one of the things they might do be to...