Equally important is the recasting or re-configuring of the force, which first deployed as a peace monitoring operation, but now should be better able to deal with more robust operations.

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And if it never does become any better, then at least its leaders, its institutions, its companies and its nations, should be able to deal with the challenges that are thrown at them in a dynamic fashion.

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