army national guardsmen who went into kinshasa in late 2010 to set up a health clinic and to deliver medical aid to just everyday congolese people as a way of winning hearts and minds, sort of preparing the battle space is the term the military likes to use, in a sense, for a wider intervention which was coming. there was momentum building for a more direct role in one of congo's most severe conflicts, and that would be the fighting surrounding the lord's resistance army which is originally a ugandan rebel group that had fled into congo and was hiding out if many northern congo and -- in northern congo and neighboring countries and survived by rape and pillage. we're going to talk in depth about this book, what they came from and what can be done about them. and the united states, among ore actors, was working up the motivation, laying the plans, gathering the resources to do something about it. that would come about a year after my, my trip to drc to do my basic reporting when president obama announced that 100 u.s. military special operations forces would go to the drc and neighbor