Well, I am also not in favor of removing army. I do think we need certain number of combat army. But I am not in favor of a big army sitting in the barracks. I just came up with this article of kantipur. http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=78815 this article talks about different things army can be utilised, and I totally agree with that. However, it does not give any figure like 1,how many armies are involved in the UN peace keeping missions, 2,what is the UN's demand??( if the UN can employ all 90k army of Nepal I dont have any headache with the current army!!), 3,also the number of army involved in singapore or brunei! (it evens says malaysia, but i doubt if there is any nepalese army in malaysia, if someone has a proof it would be helpful) well, if the above numbers total to 90 thousand I have nothing to say about the army. instead i would say lets make it even bigger... may be it could be another sector after tourism which can develop Nepal. going through this article I had a feeling what the writer wanted to say is that Nepal had a factory which used to produce low quality army men in 1991, but in 2002 it invested a lot of money to mordenise this factory so that the army men produced in this factory are of new model, with better capabilities, like a new computer with pentium V. And that we can import this new model to the world because this new model is uptodate in the context of the world standards.....