United Nations' Most Effective Forces Are Non-Western

The Assam Regiment's 15th Battalion is India's contribution to the United Nations' peacekeeping force along the Israeli border -- Israel's listening posts were stitched across the brown snows of Golan high above us -- and its soldiers, from the seven northeastern states of India, have turned out to be among the most popular of U.N. units for two simple reasons. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0507-31.htm

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