Napoleon ordered a general assault with three corps of the Grande Armée, supported by two hundred artillery pieces.

Bureaucratic and security services dominated by the Revolutionary Guards and its militia, the Basij (Mobilization Corps), are now firmly in command.

For instance, it has been suggested that a grey peace corps be established to provide to Africa on a systematic basis retired professionals in several fields of expertise, in the way that the United States Peace Corps has provided young people to developing nations.5

In that year, Fabius Maximus and the Senate decided to induct volunteer slaves into the Roman armies and to have them serve in separate legions to win their freedom.

Assistance in project formulation In 1997, Lesotho, in cooperation with UNDP, launched the Environmental Youth Corps, a project to rehabilitate degraded environments in rural and urban areas and to create income generating activities for unemployed youth.

The Sassanid elephant corps was never on the same scale as others further east, however, and after the fall of the Sassanid empire the use of war elephants died out in the region.

The Afghan National Army now consists of approximately 22,000 soldiers and officers, with 16,000 men in the following five corps Kabul, Gardez, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar e Sharif.

Combined with topping up the poorly paid salaries of African medical personnel, consideration might be given to such programmes as the creation of a grey peace corps, where doctors in rich countries could be mobilized, with compensation as necessary, to work in Africa, or the provision of pre fabricated clinics designed for targeted countries in Africa.