... recent trends in African affairs has been the growing security cooperation between France and the United States, termed by IFRI as “
reinforced containment
”... ... places for European shores has
decreased
, arrivals still number in the
hundreds of thousands
. The bottom line, as the report rightly indicates, is that African security... ... responding to humanitarian crises and fostering development essentially gave way to fighting terrorism.
Eleonora Lebedeva:
Islamic Extremism in Sub-Saharan Africa
In part, military...
... when such militaries are engaged in combat operations. But these attacks were not at France’s ministry of defense, they were not targeting soldiers; they were, among... ... Drones involve precision weapons, and strikes target those are terrorists or involved in terrorism. There are civilian deaths in these attacks quite often, but with no evidence... ... inflicting your lack of erudition on others.
To the militant pro-Snowden anti-NSA crusaders: I’m not going to tell you that what Snowden did had no positive effect;...
... government also cannot avoid launching a major retribution. It might include more intensive attacks on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and a clearer and more coordinated allied strategy will certainly replace the rather haphazard attacks. Since France is unlikely to rally enough capabilities, even with the help of major European countries, for an effective response, Europe is likely to appeal to the United States, which has so far preferred to distance itself from the Middle East developments....
