UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Just after a band of mercenaries tried to oust the government in the Maldives back in 1988, I asked a Maldivian diplomat, using a familiar military catch phrase, about the strength of his country's “standing army.”
"Standing army?", the diplomat asked with mock surprise, and remarked perhaps half-jokingly, "We don't even have a sitting army."
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https://www.globalissues.org/news/2023/07/17/34263 [Collection]
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