Africa Defense Forum
ADF is a professional military magazine published quarterly by U.S. Africa Command to provide an international forum for African security professionals. ADF covers topics such as counter terrorism strategies, security and defense operations, transnational crime, and all other issues affecting peace, stability, and good governance on the African continent.
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ADF STAFF Pharaoh Taharqa was devoted to tradition. He built pyramids. He embraced titles, spoke the Egyptian language and used…
ADF STAFF Nearly 3,000 years have passed since the time of the North African conqueror known simply as Hannibal. Yet…
ADF STAFF More than 4,000 years ago, the pharaohs of Egypt established a trading partnership with the prosperous Land of…
ADF STAFF When the United Nations asked its member countries to intervene in the Korean War in 1950, more than…
ADF STAFF According to the oral histories passed down by the griots, or storytellers, the Kingdom of Benin’s greatest king…
ADF STAFF In the seventh century, Islam began spreading from the Arabian Peninsula west to what is now Spain, and…
ADF STAFF The Maravi kingdom, which took up parts of what are now Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and eastern Zimbabwe, was…
ADF STAFF Uganda’s five kingdoms date back hundreds of years and continue to play a role in the lives of…
ADF STAFF The Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, dates to the seventh century, the time…
CLUES Walled towns and settlements, known as paletas, were built on high plains or hills to provide a strategic and…