ocr: Today the Mongolian army is the weakest in the world and some interesting anecdotes illustrate this perfectly. For example, a stockbreeder living close to the Russian border proudly explained to me how his cousin and thirty of his friends surprised an elite anti-contraband commando force after a drinking session one evening and gave them a good hiding. The Mongolian republic is one of the rare countries thinking about doing away with the army altogether. After all, what could 15,000 under-equipped à àe Mongolian soldiers do against their powerful Russian neighbours in the north and the Chinese ...
