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[PODCAST] Trump to Africa: Drop Dead!
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[PODCAST] Trump to Africa: Drop Dead!

Fuggedaboudit!


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The Youth Bulge of All Youth Bulges

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October 31, 2023
The Youth Bulge of All Youth Bulges

Really solid NYT article exploring a subject very familiar to me: the inevitable demographic rise/transition of Africa this mid-century.

Jihadism's shifting center of gravity

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September 30, 2024
Jihadism's shifting center of gravity

This is the story I told almost two decades ago in Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (2005), with the key caveat here being that this was written before the creation of Africa Command, which I predicted in a concluding “Heroes Yet Discovered” segment by citing “The first U.S. military commander of African Command” (p. 338)

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