Month: February 2013

• Competing Imperatives: Post-Conflict Military Integration and Demobilization in South Sudan

  February 28, 2013

  South Sudan

  Last week, I did a webinar for the Cultural Knowledge Symposium‘s Speaker Series based on the research I have done thus far on South Sudan. You can see the video from the webinar below: Synopsis: Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, the government of South Sudan has sought to neutralize… Read.

• Capacity-Building Key to AFRICOM’s Mission

  February 6, 2013

  AFRICOM, Security Cooperation, U.S. Africa Strategy

  (Originally published in World Politics Review on February 5, 2013) Across the globe, partner capacity-building through steady-state theater security cooperation plays an increasingly important role in the forward defense posture of the United States. The Defense Department’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review identifies building the security capacity of partner states as a key mission, while the 2010 National Security Strategy argues that the… Read.