Welcome to the New Age of Military Intervention in Africa
01.20.2014 at 09:20pm
Welcome to the New Age of Military Intervention in Africa by Peter Dörrie, War is Boring
… It’s a new age of military intervention by Africans in Africa. And the implications are huge for the entire world.
In some ways, the situation is reminiscent of the 1990s and early years of this millennium, when civil wars across the African continent drew in African powers and countries from all over the world. The difference today is that African countries intervene on behalf of embattled neighboring governments, not against them.
Supporting rebel groups is out. Only pariah governments like Sudan and Eritrea still engage in the practice…
