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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHe said by the 1800s, the Europeans were fighting on horsebacks with swords and later alone with some rifles to provide mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHowever, the problem for the horses came around 1854 during a war in Russia where the British and others had gone to Russia to support Turkey and there was a British horse force. By this time, science had invented machine guns and the horses were mowed down and this was the end of the use of horses in war. The Machine gun was more efficient, it could kill the horses quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Museveni explained that during the 1st World War, the British decided to come up with a mobile trench in the form of a tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat is why in the 1st World War, you had a static war; a war of trenches, nobody moved due to the machine guns that could mow you down. Towards the end, that\u2019s when the British thought of inventing a mobile trench, so they got some metal and put it together with an engine. By this time, the car had also been invented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd in order to surprise the Germans, they labelled these mobile vehicles with some protected metal, what you could call armour. They hid them as water tanks, that\u2019s where the name tank came from. They were taken to Belgium and surprised the Germans who were shooting these tanks, and the bullets were not going through. That is how the British gained the initiative and the tank now became a very useful force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0 Museveni further explained that the tank has potential but also limitations, that is why there\u2019s a need for combined arms. \u201cI always advise that don\u2019t use the tanks alone, they need supporting forces. That\u2019s why we talk of combined arms. War is like that, you need to mix in order to get a good product.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, Hon. Jacob Oboth Oboth congratulated the trainees for successfully completing their training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hon. Oboth Oboth also commended President Museveni for being consistent in his vision and foresight on the transformation of Uganda. \u201cWe want to thank you for prioritizing training in the army. We also want to thank you for your vision to transform the UPDF and Uganda,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Representing the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen. Muhoozi Kaneirugaba, the Commander of UPDF Land Forces, Lt. Gen. Kayanja Muhanga informed the President that the passout is yet another milestone in professionalizing the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTraining is very important since it perfects our fighting capabilities. When you train hard, you lose less blood in battle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI want to thank the President and Commander in Chief for always emphasizing this because there\u2019s no other way you can have a professionalized and capable army without training. There\u2019s peace in all four corners of Uganda because there\u2019s an army that is professional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Commandant of the warfare college, Col. Wilson Kabeera said the college is the premier institution for training and developing the armour and combat engineer commanders, instructors and technical personnel with the aim of enhancing warfare lethality and capabilities and executing combined arms operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYour Excellency, our vision is to become a centre of excellence for manoeuvre and land operations. To achieve this vision, our mission is to train agile and adaptive commanders, crews and combat engineers capable of operating in all combat environments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis company Commander course commenced on 7th June, 2024 while the armour basic crew course commenced on 18th December, 2023. They have been undergoing a six-month course and 1 year respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Col. Kabeera also thanked President Museveni for his strategic leadership that has prioritized training in UPDF, noting that because of that, they now have fully-fledged training institutions from the lowest training unit to the highest National Defence College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He further thanked the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs for the strategic support provided to the college. \u201cIn a special way, I would love to thank the Chief of Defence Forces for his strategic support and guidance to the success of this college.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He also congratulated the trainees upon their successful completion of their training. \u201cYou have been empowered with the skills, techniques and tactics of employing armour to accomplish armour tasks and missions in different operating environments. I\u2019m confident that you will be able to apply the skills and the knowledge obtained from here to employ the superior capabilities of armour to defeat our enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Yoweri Museveni and Commander-In-Chief of the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) has passed out 627 UPDF Officers who completed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/J00_1577.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9514,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/museveni-passes-out-391-updf-armored-crews-says-being-in-the-army-is-a-service-to-the-country-and-not-a-job\/","url_meta":{"origin":13452,"position":0},"title":"Museveni passes out 391 UPDF armored crews says being in the army is a service to the country and not a job","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"July 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"President Museveni who is also the Commander in Chief of the armed forces has passed out 391 UPDF armored crew and said that serving in the forces was a duty for the country and a job for personal gains . \u201cDon\u2019t look at the army as a source of jobs.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Military ,UPDF"","block_context":{"text":"Military ,UPDF","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/military-updf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/m7.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/m7.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/m7.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/m7.jpg 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5236,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/first-son-gen-muhoozi-retires-from-the-updf-at-the-age-of-47\/","url_meta":{"origin":13452,"position":1},"title":"FIRST SON GEN. 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