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Commanders attending the 2024 African Land Forces Colloquium

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9:21 AM5/8/2023

Africa’s geo-strategic location, burgeoning political influence, and growing economic power make it increasingly important on the world stage and inseparable from U.S. global interests. Growing economies, populations that will comprise 30% of the world's population by 2050, and vast natural resources, including rare earth elements, are all compelling reasons for the U.S. to collaborate with African partners to shape the next century.

9:01 AM5/8/2023

8:47 PM5/7/2023

ALFS 2023 Infographic

11:51 AM3/7/2022

As the understanding of how environmental exposures impact our health continues to evolve, simply capturing data is important, for we may learn something in the next decade that we simply don’t know about right now, and having the information or data captured as a “snapshot in time” could help in understanding a future issue by making the information available for retrospective analysis.

10:55 AM1/31/2022

The JAG Corps must seek more opportunities for joint work, especially for its new officers. Where possible, it should institutionalize those opportunities and relationships, so that Army JAG participation in LSE 21 does not need to depend on a particular SJA. Many of our actual operations are joint, but so often, our training and our thinking are not. A future JAG Corps, like the rest of the force, should be ready to operate as part of one joint team.

12:15 PM1/25/2022

Welcome to Africa: Year in Review 2021 (AYIR). As the year came to a close, the Wilson Center Africa Program continued its annual tradition of asking policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and Africa watchers to reflect on what they considered to be the year’s most impactful developments on the African continent, in U.S.-Africa relations, and about Africa’s role in the global arena. Our contributors responded with 27 mini-essays covering a broad range of topics in the governance, security, development, and social spheres.

12:02 PM1/25/2022

Considering the outsized influence of Africa on world religions – and the influence of religion on the African continent – Africa provides an excellent case study for exploring the importance of External Religious Advisement as a key component of US Army Religious Support capabilities. The African continent is a complex landscape politically, economically, and culturally. Africa is no less complex in its religious landscape, and therefore the impact of religion on operations in Africa would require careful and in-depth analysis in order to be useful to commanders.

10:42 AM1/25/2022

Financial managers play a critical in this process by integrating the wide variety of funding sources and authorities necessary to resource competition in Africa including: Security Force Assistance (SFA) events, JCS exercises, senior leader engagements (SLEs), and Army Support to Other Services (ASOS). This paper provides a brief overview of the complex tasks and coordination necessary to successfully resource SFA and exercises activities in order to compete on the African Continent.

12:39 PM5/13/2021

African Land Forces Summit Fact Sheet

12:29 PM5/13/2021

African Land Forces Summit History

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