18 11 13 Congo Siasa – How the Congolese army perceives itself

It is interesting to see how Congolese officers themselves see the
challenge. In February of this year, the army high command invited
around 120 senior officers to Kinshasa for a seminar
on army reform––it was an excuse to remove them from the field, where
they were clogging up the military hierarchy and, in the case of some,
embezzling funds. But many of them are highly qualified
officers, and when they were asked to produce an analysis of the army's
defeat to the M23 in Goma in November 2012, they came up with a telling
and damning document.