By Robert Wilkinson-Latham

Within the Sudan in 1881 an vague son of a wood worker stated himself the ‘Mahdi’ or ‘Guided one of many Prophet’, the long-expected Messiah of the Islamic religion. His impression was once so robust that Egypt (co-ruled by way of Britain and France) used to be plunged into warfare. Robert Wilkinson-Latham presents an soaking up account of the Sudan campaigns, together with the siege of Khartoum, the unpredictable normal Charles Gordon, and the Nile day trip. the writer information the supplier and fortunes of all forces concerned, portray a desirable photograph of where and its peoples from 1881–98.

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19. South Africa, The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of South Africa, Act No. 108, 1996, chap. 2, sec. 15; South Africa Department of Defence Instruction, Religious Policy, 2000. 20. Ignatious F. Gqiba and Sybrand van Niekerk, “The Role and Influence of Chaplains in the South African National Defence Force” (unpublished paper, 2003), 13. 21. South African National Defence Force Chaplain Service, (Pretoria: Department of Defence, 2000). 22. Nils T. Lunde and Bard Maeland, “From Nation-building to Peacebuilding: A Half Century with the Norwegian Military Chaplaincy” (unpublished paper, 2003), 11.

401, Civil Affairs Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, 2003. 4. Rodger Venzke, Confidence in Battle, Inspiration in Peace: The United States Army Chaplaincy, 1945–1975 (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, 1977), 7–11; Edward L. R. Elson, personal files, Chaplain Corps Archives, US Army Chaplain Museum, Fort Jackson, SC, pages unnumbered. 5. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, letter to Lt Gen Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, 11 December 1990, in personal files of David Peterson, Fort Belvoir, VA.

Individual competence and ongoing training and development are the norm for all military specialties. Chaplains can be trained to function successfully in this role with standards that denote and guarantee strict tolerances with acceptable margins of error. The impact of local religions on mission success cannot be ignored, and chaplains are by far the best possible choice to embrace these religious groups and religious leaders during stability operations. A third argument against chaplain involvement in stability operations is that chaplains cannot engage in combat operations, and Phase IV stability operations is a part of combat operations.

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