 the two largest standing armies in the country one of which was the formal military known as the sudanese armed forces but the other one was this paramilitary force the rapid support forces which had hailed mostly from the darfur region bashir did this as a form of what's called coup proofing basically make sure neither the army couldn't overthrow him um and also no one else was powerful enough to do so um but the big concern when the sudanese overthrew him was that basically