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Title:The Role of the Army in Guinea
Author:DuBois, Victor D.
Year:1963
Periodical:Africa Report
Volume:8
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:3-5
Language:English
Geographic term:Guinea
Subjects:defence
Military, Defense and Arms
Politics and Government
Abstract:This article deals with the way in which the Guineas Government solved the economic and social problem of finding some type of occupation for about 50,000 veterans which served in the French army till Guinea opted for independence in the referendum of September 1958. The ex-servicemen were incorporated into the political process and imbued with a sense of the nation's new revolutionary mission with the help of the Parti Democratique de Guinee. From the territorial gendarmerie established by the French, and from the ranks of the new returning veterans, President Toure proceeded to build this new army. The orientation of the new army, its role in the social system, the function it was to fulfill were carefully worked out.