Not at all. Remember the year; 1994. Russia could easily have mobilised the military and aeroflot Il-76s for a massive airlift.
How an African army would have been maintained in the field? Guess how.African countries: How would those African countries have gotten there and how would they have been able to maintain forces if they had gotten them there?
Tip: They need no sandbag fortress with air-conditioned containers and McDonalds franchise.
So what? A genocide like that does not happen every decade or even year. It doesn't matter whether you give a marching order to all your paras and all your air transport wings or just to a fraction of them.We were the only country that had C-130s, C-5s, C-141s, KC-135s and KC-10s by the hundreds and hundreds therefore we were the only country for whom the effort would have been a relatively minor one, relatively.
The killing was done in large part with machetes, clubs or at most by ill-equipped, ill-organised, ill-led and ill-trained troops.
All you needed for an effective intervention was to send paras in.
Even Luxembourg could have made a difference; mobilise their infantry battalion, charter seven airliners, send them in and let them loose in platoon-sized teams to hunt down and disarm mobs and gangs.
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