South Sudan Military

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KingLouis

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Do anyone know anything about the new nation South Sudan's military? What kinda situation is the country in。
 
Finn McCool

Finn McCool

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I know that they've been subtly building up their forces over the last couple of years. I know that they have been buying armored vehicles from Ukraine quietly; a shipload of T-72s bound for South Sudan was hijacked by Somali pirates a few years back. So they probably have a few dozen working MBTs and probably some BMPs and such. I know they have a few Mi-17s as well. I'd expect that they've been quietly importing the usual Third World African conflict type weapons; BM-21s, mines, lots of small arms. Altogether the SPLA's forces seem to be pretty unprofessional and disorganized. I say this because in all the reading I've done about the multi-decade Sudanese Civil War, I've never come across even one named engagement. That means that it was entirely small skirmishes and civilian massacres, with lots of internecine fighting among Southern factions. Those forces are essentially the military of South Sudan today. South Sudan can rely on its inhospitable terrain and lack or roads (or indeed any transportation) to protect it from Northern invasion. The logistical difficulties of a serious campaign to capture the capital, Juba, are insurmountable from the North's perspective, so even the forces that the South can field are enough to prevent the nation from being destroyed. Even though they're not nearly enough to protect all the citizens of South Sudan from all the many different armed groups operating in that area that could kill them at any time.
 
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KingLouis

Junior Member
What kind of control do the South Sudan president have over the military? Usually when small band of gurreilla happen the command become decentralized and independent leadership might develop.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Not Sure How there control is but here is a tidbit.
BBC said:
14 July 2011 Last updated at 11:50 ET
UN welcomes South Sudan as 193rd member
South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar smiles with delegates after the United Nations General Assembly voted on South Sudan's membership to the United Nations at the UN. headquarters in New York July 14, 2011 South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar (r) was warmly greeted in New York
The UN General Assembly has admitted South Sudan as its 193rd member.

South Sudan is the first country to join the UN body since Montenegro in 2006, and the day was described by assembly president Joseph Deiss as a "historic and joyous moment".

"Welcome, welcome South Sudan to the community of nations," said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The vote was unanimous and was immediately followed by applause in the General Assembly.

In a meeting on Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to recommend South Sudan's membership of the world body.

South Sudan became independent on Saturday, after its people voted to secede from the north in January's referendum.

South Sudan says it is launching its own currency and the South Sudan pound note will be in circulation by next Monday.

However, Mr Ban warned the world's newest country that the hard work begins now.

Although it is oil-rich, it is one of the least developed areas of the world - only 16% of its women can read and write and there are very few paved roads in a country larger than Spain and Portugal combined.

Its independence follows decades of conflict with the north in which some 1.5 million people died.

The two countries have still to decide on issues such as drawing up the new border and how to divide Sudan's debts and oil wealth.
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