Flame bait, aki? Really? Pass. On Monday, December 19, 2011, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Peter inline below :-) On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's how I see your misdirection:
Aki says: I got it now! :-) I'll read the chronicle postings as you suggest and
will revert back on some comments. I'm still not able to connect real experts views on KDF interms of operations, so will keep searching. What has KDF done significantly that makes it different from other armies? If you are on about hardware, then KE is nowhere close to many other Nations in Africa.
Brainiac said: ...ok @aki, being covert by nature, you wont get any information
anywhere about KDF...
This response by @Areba is such bull. Each country has its own forces, including special forces. I don't see anything unqiue about KDF nor has @Areba provided any details, rather I read mischief with that response.. This is the same response @Rad wrote about people not talking about their code development plans and also not publishing such meaning its only him who knows thus comes on this list to make corrections to postings but still not sharing a single word on such. Inventors and Innovators worldwide are publishing their stuff so as to get recognition while we seem to be very different.
then said: and just in case you need spoon feeding...
http://intelligencebriefs.com/?p=1085
Now, in that link, the first paragraph says: "Across the East and Central African region, Kenya remains the most
militarily powerful country. This is based on its capabilities including assets and resources at disposal besides human resources..."
This above is not an accurate analysis. Compare us not to the smaller economic countries but to SA, Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and see where we are. At one time, Rwanda was the top IT connected country in Africa, how would this anaylsis work when compared to Kenya?
It further says: "...Kenya has not shown neither explained its huge defense budget.
Either the defense procurement keeps the details of its purchases privy to the defense industry media or high levels of corruption mirror these budgets..."
These budgets needs to be explained since we are not at large scale war with anyone. Even if not in details but no country is exempt from buying or selling armaments without following the international protocols. Is the economy, infrastructure growth suffering because of this? We seem to be looking for donations to build roads, LPG facilties etc but are we wasting money on the other side of things? I've no idea.
Ok, from that article, I saw this one
http://intelligencebriefs.com/?p=1027 which led me to this one http://articles.janes.com/extracts/extract/cafrsu/kenys120.html, which just happens to be the very first site Brainiac referred you to and from where you were unable to get any good info on KDF.
Anyways, that Jane article says in part:
"The Kenyan Air Force is the largest and arguably the most professional
air force in East Africa, but has begun to experience problems..."
Again, jane's comparing our professionalism to what? UG and TZ or RW? If the other countries had the economy that KE has, then it would make sense for comparisons. Compare us to other stronger economies on the continent as then we can come up with some correct comparisons.
So, assuming that janes.com and intelligencebriefs.com are factual
sources, then Areba has answered your question.
But you then pull a classic misdirection; from discussing about the
professional rating of KDF to talking about ideology in Libya.
:-)
No one has still provided any concrete data on the professionalism standards of KDF and as such offered any comparisons either. That clip I shared has a lot to say from the action to everything else that was going on at that time if one followed the Libya story thus I wrote about the ideology angle.
I can write that @Areba is the doing the classic misdirection. @Areba did not want me to push the question on the Hummers thus side tracked this thread with a classic angle "if only we appreciate our military......."
My view. :-)