FAO Quotables

"But being right, even morally right, isn't everything. It is also important to be competent, to be consistent, and to be knowledgeable. It's important for your soldiers and diplomats to speak the language of the people you want to influence. It's important to understand the ethnic and tribal divisions of the place you hope to assist."
-Anne Applebaum

Friday, January 21, 2011

A Great Resource for Insight by ACSS

Please click on the title to check out the link.

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies puts out some great studies and there is some useful information on their website.  Of note I would like to highlight the a superb article by August Vogel which examines whether Africa needs developed Navies or Coast Guards...personally, I am hard-pressed to find a valid arguement for the overwhelming majority of african nations to have navies at this point in time.  However, the development of robust national and regional coast guards would precisely answer the current maritime security shortcomings.

http://africacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/AfricaBrief_2.pdf

No comments:

Post a Comment