Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
Then there is an ex-DoD regional expert, Rudy Atallah:
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It depends how you define effective. In terms of aggressive team players supporting the French, they are doing a great job. If the definition is based purely on capability to continue the fight on their own, I don't think they can survive. Chadian troops are a blunt edge and good scouts for the French, but they couldn't be as effective without French intel, guidance, and air power.
Link:http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Afric...ner-for-France
We now have two teams there and they are by each day more skeptical than that of the last. As we should be teaching instead of reacting, things are getting out of hand with the Chadians (who have concluded they are in charge).

It was years ago on the Libyan border with Hawk batteries that we determined the same regarding our Chadian brothers.

However, they can and do survive without any assistance (in the middle of nowhere). Effective is a relative term that one would use with caution. Violent comes to mind and it seems to work with the local problem. Africans are not accustomed to Western intel, guidance, etc.

Where and when the West backs off due to political ramifications, we then let the Africans do their thing How ironic that we then decide to tell them how neanderthal they are