I'm surprised AFRICOM even got into the venue. But then, money talks and I'm sure they pay dearly for such an event. Public Affairs can do wonders with our taxes !

I am most interested in Mercenaries and military manpower in African history and would love to hear what your better half has to say on that subject. A ton of evidence that the Serbs were Mobutu's final frontier but none were actually killed nor captured. However, they left a significant amount of anti-personnel mines behind that are still being cleaned up as we speak.

Quote Originally Posted by ganulv View Post
My significant other is away to the African Studies Association meeting and it occurred to me to browse the program to see how many presenters are taking AFRICOM as their topic. Only two, it turns out, both of whom list Africa Command as their affiliation. I suspect that runs counter to some folks’ perception of perceptions in a couple of ways.