FAZ reorganisation after Shaba I
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This is technically an RFI but is posted here because it's a purely historical Zaire matter. I've been continuing to research the FAZ, and my efforts to start by sketching in the command structure are not going too well. I really need to go to the archives in Brussels, but ahead of that I wanted to pick brains, Stan and Tom in particular. I've just been reading the CGSC paper on the two Shabas and it's really good, but does not go as far as necessary on a couple of questions.
Mobutu reorganised the command structure after Shaba I. Now what I guess is that he did away with the 'groupements,' created three Roman-numeralled Regions Militaires, and then started creating the 31st Para, 41st Commando etc.
About this time DITRAC appears to have disappeared and the Kamanyola Division was created - I now know thanks to the paper Tom that the division was created some six months before Shaba I.
So my question is - are my guesses about the reorganisation correct, why was the Kamanyola Division created, *before* the hasty flurry of reorganisation after Shaba I, and who were the personalities that really drove all this? Who won and who lost, and why?
Very much appreciate your inputs - this has really been puzzling me!
Cheers and thanks
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