Ugandan Bush WarUganda · 1980–1986“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”Museveni lost the 1980 election, declared it stolen, and went to the bush of the Luwero Triangle with twenty-six men and a doctrine: the army must be the people's, disciplined, political, patient. Obote's army answered the doctrine by emptying Luwero of its living.