Flag Challenge 72: Voting Poll
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Martinus Paduei - Sudanese Army
With my minimal artistic ability, there is no way I can compete with the stellar efforts of some of the forum users.Still, I will keep plugging away, with simple designs which are both my general preference, and within even my rudimentary skill set.
I offer the Flag of the Sudanese Army, developed as was my previous flag of Kamchatka City, from my Danke Schön, Freiherr von der Goltz timeline. ITTL, Sudan was partitioned between Egypt and Britain in the 1920's, with Britain retaining the southern and western portions of the territory, along with a corridor running to the Red Sea. On independence, the country adopted a national flag symbolically representing the White Nile and Blue Nile.
The Sudanese Army flag contains the national flag in the upper left quarter, and in addition to the stated symbolism of the color red standing for the willingness of the army to shed its blood in defense of the nation, the flag recalls the Red Ensigns employed by the British, who trained the Sudanese Army prior to and during its transition to independence. The flag has actually been displayed in combat only briefly, during the Ilemi Triangle border war, when some Sudanese outposts came under Ethiopian fire during the first few weeks of 2001, prior to the implementation of the Westafrikan-brokered ceasefire agreement.
