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ADF STAFF A visitor to Lusaka, Zambia’s capital city, doesn’t need to go far to see China’s impact.  Passengers arrive…

EDWARD A. DURELL, P.E., SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR, U.S. AFRICA COMMAND Important technological innovations don’t typically come out of the…

ADF STAFF As a frightening new respiratory illness flared in western China and eventually made its way into Europe, Africa…

MAJ. GEN. PRINCE C. JOHNSON III As the world faces an invisible enemy, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, it might…

ADF STAFF As poachers go high-tech with helicopters, animal sedatives and high-powered rifles, the men and women protecting endangered wildlife…

ADF STAFF Twenty years ago, few had heard of cyber warfare. Religious extremism was not considered a threat to most…

When South Korea faced a communist incursion from the North in 1950, it asked the world for help. One country…

ADF STAFF When Sierra Leonean fishermen board their small wooden boats and head out into the open sea to make…

MAJ. GEN. (RET.) MUHAMMAD INUWA IDRIS ilitary officers have all benefited from professional military education (PME) throughout their careers. PME…

When it comes to building military capacity in Africa, adding aircraft tends to take a back seat because of the…