[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Sorry, just a couple of points (if I am wrong please forgive me, cuz this is from memory).

The UN does not have troops, nor does it arm them or train them. The UN draws from it's member nations, some have good militaries, some have poor militaries.

The country/parties that accept Peacekeepers also set out what type of weapons the Peacekeepers can bring into the country (for example UNPROFOR was not meant to have anything bigger than a .50 cal. Luckly when the RCR move down on Roto 0, they were smart enough to bring, TOW, mortars, Carl G and M72. As an aside thank #### they brought all that clobber down. At the time the Yugo was such a #### show nobody really tracked what the different nations brought with them, which might example how the Nepalese showed up with only rifles and no vehicles, and the Argies showed up with only soft skinned vehicles.


The soldiers lack of training is not what got them captured and killed, rather it was their training that got them captured and killed. The troops that were captured and killed were from a good professional NATO army. They were well trained and most likely motivated. The reason I say their training got them killed is they were most likely not allowed to engage. As professionals they know they are to follow orders, sometimes following the lack of orders.

You are correct that the UN is (IMO) ar fault for the death of those soldiers, but it isn't because they trained them poorly, or equipqed them, rather it was the dithering of UN politicians and bureaucrats that caused the death of those soldiers.


Sorry, but those soldiers were professionals, and should not be viewed and anything less.

Were these UN soldiers (in Syria) mostly from the Philippines? I wonder if they were ordered not to engage.
I know the Belgians murdered in Rwanda followed orders to hand over their weapons.