Where Next?

[Come-quickly]

With the Liberia mandate unlikely to be extended where is the next likely deployment for the DF?
I heard tales from a familiar foreign ally that they are working up for Darfur which would definitely be within our ambit.
Bosnia was on the armies to do list but they planned to send an artillery regiment which our puny logs can't handle so will they send an inf unit instead?
If I were to be the man with the funny moustache (should have gone to specsavers!) I'd be pushing to contribute to an expanded ISAF, with the canadians already committing to moving troops out into the badlands of afghanistan it would be an excellent mission for developing the DF not to mention somewhat vital to prevent Afghaniistan collapsing again and showering us all in the brown stuff.

[Thorpe]

The word out there at the moment is that UNMIL is not getting another mandate and the DF are looking seriously at either Bosina or KFOR.

[Goldie fish]

I guess if the mandate is not being extended,its another job well done.
The events of last March,as well as the lack of understanding of the situation by some Members of the UN Security Council,(In Particular the US and China) means that KFOR,or other Balkan missions,will be about for many years to come.

[average]

Darfur, aus might be going, more the merrier. Write your local mp.

[Mick O'Toole]

There is a tender out for flights to Monrovia until February 2006.

The current mandate is authorised until Sep 2005.

[Come-quickly]

Everyone I talked to who deployed to UNMIL said there was nothing much left to do, it may be a speculative tender.

[warlord]

We're gonna be in liberia for a while more, there's still plenty to do out there. Still large amounts of weapons floating about and the weapons for cash program is finished next month, so its gonna be a case of hand over your weapon or we'll take it from you. Can see that causing complications.

[paul g]

Re: Where next

Bosnia was on the armies to do list but they planned to send an artillery regiment which our puny logs can't handle so will they send an inf unit instead?


Would love to know where you heard this exactly, (send me a p.m if you have do). Actually thinking about it and the conversion of the L-118 to L-119, its well within our logstics capability.

[Goldie fish]

I hear the Congo is due for a return visit...

[Parts]

But it's not that Congo, it's the other one, or so I'm told.

[DeV]

The UNMIL mandate is authorised untill September 2005.

There are also other options (note their mandates may or may not be extended):
UNOCI (Ivory Coast) ending in April 2005
UNMEE (Ethiopa / Eriteria) ending in March 2005
UNAMSIL (Sierra Leone) ending in June 2005
UNMISET (East Timor) ending in May 2005
UNFICYP (Cyprus)
UNDOF (Golan Heights)
UNIFIL (Lebanon)

The following missions, are options but their mandates are due to end shortly (unless extended):
MONUC (Congo) ending this month
ONUB (Burundi) ending in November
MINURSO (Western Sahara) ending this month, but only 30 troops involved
MINUSTAH (Haiti) ending in November

The following are only observer missions:
UNMOGIP (India / Pakistan)
UNOMIG (Georgia)
UNMIK (Kosovo)
UNTSO (Middle East)

[DeV]

Information from the COS's speech to the PDFORRA ADC on 4/10/06:

Current planning is that the 96th Bn, which will deploy to UNMIL in November this year, will be our final Unit, with our projected exit from Liberia scheduled for May/June 2007.

[hedgehog]

An option not listed is Cyprus

We should never have left,

Even if it was to remain as a small mission it should have been kept on

as our longest continous mission,

we should have kept it and given ot out to senior dogs as a well done, bring your wife and

kds for a year in the sun trip
and thanks

[Sluggie]

The lads in Cyprus getting caught with the big duty-free scam probably hastened our exit from the mission somewhat.

[hedgehog]

The lads in Cyprus getting caught with the big duty-free scam probably hastened our exit from the mission somewhat.

again with speculation and gossip

Even the DF is not stupid enough to pin the mistakes of a couple of blokes out of al lthe

thousands and thousands that served there,