Coming this October, free online to everybody through open access. You can also order a paper copy. dukeupress.edu/soldiers-parad…

Golden hour spreads charming light across the rugged peaks and jagged rocks at Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in New Mexico. Photo by Kevin Jagoe

US military is leaving Niger even less secure: why it didn’t succeed in combating terrorism defenceweb.co.za/african-news/u… via @defenceweb_afr

This is actually pretty wild. Just watch the clip and ask yourself if that NYT paragraph accurate describes it.

Great news for #Angola, CorpCnclAfrica, and U.S.-Africa business ties.

dailynews.co.tz/after-60-years… so the next few years should be interesting. It sounds like the TPDF is getting more funding, which always helps. However the big question is what sort of missions that funding is intended to facilitate- is Tanzania looking to be more regionally active?

a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895. Journal of African cities: chapter 13 africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-complete-h…

Rosemary “Rosie” Posey Fagin had her first tryout as a trail dog at the Talladega National Forest and she had the time of her life! Cc Lola Patolla

A sad passing, but the House ensures.

required by law to share this and watch 100x whenever it pops up in my feed x.com/flanthippe/sta…

I thought “neighbor’s daughter’s friend” was pretty solid sourcing

The key thing about Afghanistan is that there has been 100 times more scrutiny of the details of the withdrawal than of the prior 20 years of military failure, and any future president will learn the lesson that it’s a mistake to ever end any deployment for any reason.

James Earl Jones… there will never be another of his particular combination of graces.

you cant build an electric truck for $10k, and even if you could, it would weigh 8000lbs and have like 5 inches of ground clearance. and what toyota IS doing is making a $10k lightweight barebones gas truck. but american politicians have decided that we arent allowed to buy one

brazilian sense of humor: both the US+china want good relations so brazil invited both to military exercises+now they’re forced to exercise together for the first time since 2016. oh+it’s called “operation formosa” just after the nearby brazilian town, ofc scmp.com/news/china/mil…

Maritime security conference in Stellenbosch highlights urgent need for regional cooperation defenceweb.co.za/african-news/m…

It is a grim statement on human nature that the crime rate can be the lowest its ever been in my lifetime and apparently still falling and it is *still* politically effective to gin up fear and outrage over an entirely fictional crime wave by 'those people.'

Along with John Lechner and Sergei Eledinov, I wrote a piece on the current state of play in northern #Mali following the #Wagner Group's defeat at Tinzaouatene. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/10/mal…

Oh my god I would buy one of these within minutes of it being released. Hell, even at $15k I’d do it without hesitation.

The arrival of a U.S. private security firm in #CentralAfricanRepublic sparked backlash from Russia’s Wagner mercenaries. The tensions are a window into a wider battle between the U.S. and Russia as they vie for influence on the continent apnews.com/article/centra…