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BEST DEFENCE POLICY PAPERS ON AFRICA IN THE LAST DECADE
Between 2016 and 2026, defence policy thinking on Africa shifted in response to changing global and regional realities. Intensifying great-power competition, the spread...
BEST DEFENCE POLICY PAPERS ON AFRICA IN THE LAST DECADE
Between 2016 and 2026, defence policy thinking on Africa shifted in response to changing global and regional realities. Intensifying great-power competition, the spread...
THE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: TACTICAL LESSONS
The Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) remains one of the most instructive insurgencies of the twentieth century. Fought between the National Liberation Front...
THE RISE OF AFRICAN AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
As security threats across Africa grow more complex, a quiet transformation is underway in the continent’s air forces. Increasingly, African nations are investing...
URBAN WARFARE PREPAREDNESS IN AFRICAN CITIES
Africa’s cities are rapidly becoming central to the continent’s security challenges. With the urban population projected to approach 1.5 billion by 2050 and...
GLOBAL SECURITY WATCH: IRAN–ISRAEL TENSIONS AND STRATEGIC SIGNALS FOR AFRICA
The brief but intense Iran–Israel confrontation of June 2025 marked a turning point in global security calculations. The twelve-day exchange sparked by Israeli...
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: WHAT AFRICA GAINS FROM GLOBAL DEFENCE PARTNERSHIPS
As geopolitical alliances realign, African countries are rethinking how they secure their borders and how they build their economies. Defence partnerships that once...
THE NEW WATCHTOWERS: HOW SURVEILLANCE TOWERS AND DRONES BECAME CENTRAL TO MODERN BORDER CONTROL
Along the Arizona–Mexico border, a 160-foot steel structure Autonomous Surveillance Tower (AST) 217 stands as part of a network of 472 fixed towers...
SKIES OF ALLIANCE: HOW JOINT AIR EXERCISES RESHAPED GLOBAL AEROSPACE SECURITY IN 2025
From July 10 to August 8, 2025, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces ran Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC), the largest air contingency exercise ever...
AFRICA’S DIGITAL FORTRESS: HOW THE CONTINENT IS BUILDING CYBERSECURITY LAWS IN AN AGE OF RANSOM AND ESPIONAGE
From Cape Town to Cairo, African governments are racing to enact cybersecurity legislation that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. By November...
