The army of all nations issues from the citizenry of that nation. The quality of an army appreciates as the nation as a whole matures enhanced by the professional development curriculum of the army.
Prior to La-Guinea's independence, the military was a ragtag militia trained and organized by La-Guinea's colonizer France. This army did not have the luxury of a seamless transition to an independent and well-disciplined army but despite the abrupt impounding of Independence, this La-Guinea army that everyone loves to hate, was the achiles heel in the viral independence of African nations from the coast to the Sudan, from the Maghreb to the Congo, all with a shoestring budget that will cower the timid and reserve their lot in life to permanent slavery and subservience.
After France's demoralizing expulsion from La-Guinea, she worked tirelessly to make sure La-Guinea administrations are undermined and that France saves face. The legacy of France in La-Guinea was inextricably linked to France's treasures in the rest of Africa and to the extent La-Guinea was spoiler, she threatened the very viability of France as a future superpower. There is a reason why France has never been considered as a superpower even though the scope of her "Commonwealth" was superior to that of the regarded superpowers of the UK, USA, and the Soviet Union. The black African could not possibly be the thorn in France's side. The scheme of destabilization ensued with the recruitment of collaborators among the Africans themselves. My Texarcana churchman, Grimes, once shared with me. Haruna, there is no readier recruit for general malaise than a hungry and enslaved cadre.
Through all the machinations of a virulent sub-power, the La-Guinea army forged ahead with new and different allies mainly from the east. At the time, the armies of the east themselves were engaged in protecting their territories and peoples from the glistening eyes of a demoralized colonizer who believed that because of her inherent superiority manifested in empire and serial colonies. The Chinese have developed a proverb for such hungry eyes. That proverb was to guide their self-improvement and fortification philosophies through the centuries. These are the savior nations and armies that La-Guinea had to rely on for her very survival. Human RIghts becomes a distant consideration if there were no humans to claim those rights. These armies and nations were fighting for the very survival of their cultures and peoples.
Since Independence, La-Guinea knew no peace. France made sure of that. However, and with the goodwill of savior nations and armies, these brave citizens of La-Guinea and Africa repelled many machiavelian and brazen attempts at destruction by the frustrated and disgruntled armies of the colonizers and their surrogates, to include enemy collaborators from within their good number. They are citizens of La-Guinea, and no one can claim to love La-Guinea more than they do. Their character mirrors their history and experiences, to include surrogate invading armies from the neighborhood. They are at the same time, a manifestation of the proud and tempestuous citizens of La-Guinea. If it weren't for this pride and tempest, La-Guinea will never have been independent or assisted in the independence of the other Africans.
Armies are institutions of citizens, regimented and armed toward the protection of the homeland against foreign and domestic enemies alike. The discernment of who is an enemy, generally comes from the heirarchy of an army. Armies have very little interest in gratuitous murder of a population or any part of that population. It is indeed the legal arms of an army that distinguishes it from hunters and armed robbers. Consider that when a citizen trained on crime finds his or her way into the army, government, or administration, he/she now has the coercive sanction of law to abet these and those extremes. Persons in armies do not suddenly lose their civil and human rights when they join the army. Their continued training in the army affords them more judicious use of their arms.
The La-Guinea army has come a long way from fighting a mixed bag of foreign and domestic enemies, to fending off financial and industrial enemies. Indeed, the lives of the people of Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Bissau, Liberia, SierraLeone, and to some extent Burkina and Ivory Coast are inextricably linked to the lives of the people of La-Guinea. The work of the La-Guinea army is continuous and the La-Guinea army has the unique distinction of an army that must be continuously vigilant and be eve ready. The La-Guinea army has never planned to invade or ever overran any of La-Guinea's neighbors and has always been willing to assist any of her troubled neighbors.
On a shoestring budget, the La-Guinea army has evolved magnificently. The people of a nation cannot view their army as enemy. That will be death of the nation as they know it. That is diseased logic for it is your brothers and sisters who pledge to sacrifice their lives and material gains for your freedom and joy. A nation is only as strong as her defenders. The citizens are best advised to support the professional development and partnership of the army and the judiciary. There is no need for proxy revolutions. A popular revolution marches direct to the nation's state house to remove a tyrannous government and maintain order until another election is held and another leader is chosen. A popular revolution is no match for any army simply because the army is a subset of the population. A popular revolution is not the domain of any one tribe or ethnicity. There is a name for that....Secession or abandon. Secession and abandon can be legally sought and won.
Hail La-Guinea army!!! Thank God/Allah for you. We are eternally indebted to you for our very lives, for which we imagine rights. With you, we are confident the glistening eyes of the colonizer, ever ready to recolonize, will dull with intervening time and global events.
I thank you on my own behalf.
Haruna.