Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
About Africans, the best troops in the French Colonial were African. The big surprise at Dien Bien Phu was the collapse of the Moroccans of the 4th RTM, veterans of the Campaign of Italy…
The Colonial Powers used a lot of their Colonials to fight as they were highly regarded for their military capacities…
no kidding, we did the same thing in the 19th century by using the british officer corps as a spine to much larger colonial militias. d00d, its a revelation!

seriously, this does not change the problems that some non western cultures, such as found in africa and the ME from nurturing a military doctrine that is effective, as evidenced by the article that both centurion and myself have linked.