Somewhere on SWC we have briefly debated the state of the current African military institutions, probably in the context of the Nigerian Army and the comments by our two regular African members: JMA and KingJaja.

Tonight this 50 page paper by a retired Burkina Faso army colonel landed via Twitter; published by the US-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies and entitled 'Advancing Military Professionalism in Africa'.

On a quick read some interesting information, but for a non-African observer over-optimstic.

Link:http://africacenter.org/wp-content/u.../ARP-6-EN.pdf?