When the APCs arrived in Entebbe, were they fully operational for Rwanda?
They were not fully mission capable. The vehicles arrived in excellent automotive condition, but due to bureaucratic miscommunication, the order had been to deliver the vehicles, no mention had been made of providing the heavy machine guns that are mounted on the vehicles or the communications radios that would make the mission capable, and therefore they arrived without the machine guns and without the radios. Was that a problem? It certainly limits the utility of using the vehicles in a field deployment. No self-defense capability without the machine gun and no communications capability to be able to deploy them widely without those radios. How would you summarize the attitude of the U.S. administration to Rwanda in your own experience? During the period April through June–extreme reluctance to become involved in any way. From July onwards, a sense of guilt of having done nothing, of perhaps having prevented the international community from taking effective action; therefore, extrem
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