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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks Announcing the Creation of a Transnational Organized Crime Task Force

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks Announcing the Creation of a Transnational Organized Crime Task Force

GAO Report: U.S. Has Limited Contact, Oversight of Afghan Troops and the Gear They’ve Been Given

GAO Report: U.S. Has Limited Contact, Oversight of Afghan Troops and the Gear They’ve Been Given by Kyle Rempfer - Military Times

The Challenge of Africa’s Cities SWJED Tue, 10/16/2018 - 12:13pm

Africa’s cities are an assault on the senses. They are filled with a flow of human activity that can appear equal parts vibrant and dystopian. One need only transit Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge or Kinshasa’s Boulevard Lumumba to get a sense of this frenetic pace and the complex ecosystem of social and economic interaction that allows African urban dwellers to survive and even thrive.

A curious report, if only as so much detail has been assembled and I wonder if those involved believed "all publicity helps". What was happening? This passage is a "taster": ---Quote--- Their armed attack, described to BuzzFeed News by two of its participants and corroborated by drone...

‘A Nest of Spies’: Niger’s Deserts Become Front Line of Fight Against Jihadism

‘A Nest of Spies’: Niger’s Deserts Become Front Line of Fight Against Jihadism by Joe Parkinson and Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin – Wall Street Journal

America's Failed State Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen: Still Less Than Half a Strategy

America's Failed State Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen: Still Less Than Half a Strategy by Anthony H. Cordesman – Center for Strategic and International Studies