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The Egg Breakers Counter Terrorism In Sub Saharan Africa
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Book Synopsis The Egg Breakers - Counter Terrorism in Sub Saharan Africa by : Jacobus Kotze
Download or read book The Egg Breakers - Counter Terrorism in Sub Saharan Africa written by Jacobus Kotze and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous counter insurgency wars took place in Sub Saharan Africa since the 1950s. This book is a comparative study on how the terrorists and the Security Forces evolved through the years, starting with the Kenya Uhuru, then the Rhodesian Bush War and lastly the South African Border War and Counter terrorism operations inside the country. The author was part of the South African Police Force between 1985-1991 and touched this subject briefly in his autobiography, Mean Streets - Life in the Apartheid Police. What is also fascinating is the chapter on why Western Intelligence Agencies are failing in Sub Saharan Africa currently. An unorthodox view in using history to know tomorrow.
Book Synopsis Counterterrorism in African Failed States: Challenges and Potential Solutions by :
Download or read book Counterterrorism in African Failed States: Challenges and Potential Solutions written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failed states offer attractive venues for terrorist groups seeking to evade counterterrorism efforts of the United States and its partners in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). State failure entails, among its other features, the disintegration and criminalization of public security forces, the collapse of the state administrative structure responsible for overseeing those forces, and the erosion of infrastructure that supports their effective operation. These circumstances make identification of terrorist groups operating within failed states very difficult, and action against such groups, once identified, problematic. Terrorist groups that are the focus of the current GWOT display the characteristics of a network organization with two very different types of cells: terrorist nodes and terrorist hubs. Terrorist nodes are small, closely knit local cells that actually commit terrorist acts in the areas in which they are active. Terrorist hubs provide ideological guidance, financial support, and access to resources enabling node attacks. An examination of three failed states in Sub-Saharan Africa - Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia - reveals the presence of both types of cells and furnishes a context for assessing the threat they pose to the national interests of the United States and its partners.
Book Synopsis Counterterrorism in African Failed States by : Thomas A. Dempsey
Download or read book Counterterrorism in African Failed States written by Thomas A. Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist groups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa failed states have demonstrated the ability to avoid the scrutiny of Western counterterrorism officials, while supporting and facilitating terrorist attacks on the United States and its partners. The potential acquisition of nuclear weapons by terrorists makes terrorist groups operating from failed states especially dangerous. U.S. counterterrorism strategies largely have been unsuccessful in addressing this threat. A new strategy is called for, one that combines both military and law enforcement efforts in a fully integrated counterterrorism effort, supported by a synthesis of foreign intelligence capabilities with intelligence-led policing to identify, locate, and take into custody terrorists operating from failed states before they are able to launch potentially catastrophic attacks.
Book Synopsis Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism in Africa by : George Klay Kieh Jr.
Download or read book Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism in Africa written by George Klay Kieh Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an examination of insurgent movements and terrorist organizations, as well as state policies that instigate intrastate conflicts in African states. It examines the tactics used by anti-government forces, states’ counterterrorism responses, and the human security impacts of insecurity on citizens in Africa.
Book Synopsis U.S. Counterterrorism In Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Costs, Cultures, And Conflicts by : Donovan C. Chau
Download or read book U.S. Counterterrorism In Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Costs, Cultures, And Conflicts written by Donovan C. Chau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has never been the centerpiece of U.S. foreign and defense policy. Yet the current struggle between the United States and its allies against terrorist groups and individuals motivated by Islamic extremism thrusts SSA forward as a front in the global conflict. The author asks, centrally, what is the most effective long-term approach to U.S. counterterrorism in SSA. By comparing views in Washington, DC, with perspectives from SSA, he assesses that a fundamental and dangerous misunderstanding of SSA may be leading U.S. policy astray. Recommending a new grand strategic approach to U.S. counterterrorism policy, he suggests urgently educating a future generation of analysts, officers, and policymakers on SSA--whose interest must match their knowledge and understanding.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Africa by : Usman A. Tar
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Africa written by Usman A. Tar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how Africa’s defence and security domains have been radically altered by drastic changes in world politics and local ramifications. First, the contributions of numerous authors highlight the transnational dimensions of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Africa and reveal the roles played by African states and regional organisations in the global war on terror. Second, the volume critically evaluates the emerging regional architectures of countering terrorism, insurgency, and organised violence on the continent through the African Union Counterterrorism Framework (AU-CTF) and Regional Security Complexes (RSC). Third, the book sheds light on the counterterrorism and counterinsurgency (CT-COIN) structures and mechanisms established by specific African states to contain, degrade, and eliminate terrorism, insurgency, and organised violence on the continent, particularly the successes, constraints, and challenges of the emerging CT-COIN mechanisms. Finally, the volume highlights the entry of non-state actors – such as civil society, volunteer groups, private security companies, and defence contractors – into the theatre of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Africa through volunteerism, community support for state-led CT-COIN Operations, and civil-military cooperation (CIMIC). This book will be of use to students and scholars of security studies, African studies, international relations, and terrorism studies, and to practitioners of development, defence, security, and strategy.
Book Synopsis Code Name Angel by : George M. James
Download or read book Code Name Angel written by George M. James and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we look at the history of the South African Nuclear Weapons Program, long denied but always winked about, an open secret to many although the details were always vague with rumours of Israeli assistance in designing the bombs. In fact, the Israeli input was negligible as the South African nuclear weapons worked in an entirely unique way, yielding about what the Hiroshima bomb did and considered "sufficient" as a deterrent against a Soviet Union originated and supported conventional attack. This attack almost came to be in 1988 - 1989 via Angola into what was then South West Africa and today Namibia. Masses of conventional forces were gathered, and plans were made - in history the same as the attack on South Vietnam by North Vietnamese Forces the decade before. History always repeats itself. A brilliant South African "Maskirovka" from the Chief of Staff in Pretoria stopped the planned invasion as well as the very public mobilising order of 400,000 men from the Army Reserves.South Africa also had the means to deliver nuclear bombs accurately, all discussed in this book and may even have done so, although, we don't know. It is one of the big "ifs" in history. As said, the invasion never took place and in no small way due to the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale which is often written about in GMJ Books. It was the largest tank battle in Africa since the Second World War and South African Forces won hands down.It is beyond maddening to the author that no Western "Expert" today knows that in 1978, South Africa produced working nuclear weapons. They either don't know, forgot history, or are incompetent, or more probably, both.Just before Mr. Mandela took office as the newly democratically elected president, the atomic devices were handed over to the US Government for dismantling. That act was until now the only time in the world where a country willingly got rid of its nuclear arsenal. Everyone applauded. Yet, the means to manufacture such weapons did not disappear with the weapons, something no one in the West realises. If a place like Iran wants a nuclear weapon, they merely need to ask the South Africans that have the know-how and proven capability to produce them in record time. It is old technology. In Code Name Angel we deal with nuclear weapons and the risk of such weapons in the hands of terrorists using them against the West. You should not doubt that terrorists will use nuclear devices if they have them - they stated their intentions to do so many times in the past. The normal rules of MAD, retaliation, do not apply to them. There is no reason to doubt that they would flatten a Western city if given the opportunity and such opportunities can be created easily enough as this book explains. Description: Spymaster extraordinaire, Angelique Dawson and her team must recover lost or roguery manufactured South African nukes on their way to Iran or Al-Qaeda or both for all we know. The warheads are escorted by Zimbabwean Intelligence operatives in cahoots with Iranian Intelligence. This was one of the first major Egg Breaker operations that never made the newspapers and took place mostly in southern Mozambique, the chosen exfiltration point for the weapons. Major Geoffrey Foxtrot, under command of his handler, Angelique Dawson, later his wife and soul, tracks the weapons down in a combined operation with Mossad Agents but that is only the first step. Disarming the devices is another story as Angelique insists on doing so herself, plus the Zimbabweans are also around to prevent the bombs from being intercepted in the first place. A clash between the two groups is unavoidable. If you wish to read about Covert and Special Forces Operations in sub-Saharan Africa, the GMJ Books are the place to start. You will learn about covert operations, Special Forces techniques, and military history not known outside the select few. Code Name Angel is the 7th book of the popular GMJ Series.
Book Synopsis Code Name Foxtrot by : George M. James
Download or read book Code Name Foxtrot written by George M. James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Code Name Foxtrot goes back into history to where former Special Forces operator, Major Foxtrot's first wife, Marwa, is killed by an IED in Iraq. As can be expected he is not about to take such an insult lying down and extracts revenge as only he knows how. Fast paced and full of surprising twists it explains Foxtrot's hatred for Sir John who he blames for the death of his first wife. It is the most humane book of the series and takes place historically before the Egg Breaker War Series or GMJ 1 to GMJ 5. If you wish to read about covert and Special Forces operations in Sub Saharan Africa the GMJ Books are the place to start. Code Name Foxtrot is the sixth book in the GMJ Series.
Book Synopsis The Global Food Crisis by : Jennifer Clapp
Download or read book The Global Food Crisis written by Jennifer Clapp and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Book Synopsis Speaking with Vampires by : Luise White
Download or read book Speaking with Vampires written by Luise White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.
Download or read book Brittle Power written by Amory B. Lovins and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single tick bite can have debilitating consequences. Lyme disease is the most common disease carried by ticks in the United States, and the number of those afflicted is growing steadily. If left untreated, the diseases carried by ticks-known as tick-borne diseases-can cause severe pain, fatigue, neurological problems, and other serious health problems. The Institute of Medicine held a workshop October 11-12, 2010, to examine the state of the science in Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.
Book Synopsis Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta by : Cyril Obi
Download or read book Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta written by Cyril Obi and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated, largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency. Approaching the issue from a number of perspectives, the book offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis available of the varied dimensions of the conflict. Combining empirically-based and analytic chapters, it attempts to explain the causes of the escalation in violence, the various actors, levels and dynamics involved, and the policy challenges faced with regard to conflict management/resolution and the options for peace. It also examines the role of oil as a commodity of global strategic significance, addressing the relationship between oil, energy security and development in the Niger Delta.
Download or read book Juletane written by Myriam Warner-Vieyra and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and moving novel, Myriam Warner-Vieyra sensitively portrays the complexities of cross-cultural relationships and, in particular, the female predicament. When Helene, a self-reliant career woman, is packing her belongings for a move and imminent marriage for which she is reluctant, she unearths a faded old book. It is the diary of young Juletane, a confused, sheltered West Indian woman struggling to find herself. Written over three weeks, it records her short life: childhood in France, marriage to an African student, and an eager return with him to Africa, the land of her ancestors. It is Juletane’s diary that brings her and Helene together. Juletane does not fit into her husband’s traditional African family, especially the Muslim cultural demands of polygamy. Full of gentle ironies, Juletane is a story about alienation, madness, shattered dreams: the disillusioned West Indian outsider’s disenchantment with Africa. Myriam Warner-Vieyra looks at women’s lives, at the paths they have taken, at the possibilities open to women in the Caribbean, in Africa, in life. She forces readers, through the double narrative of Juletane and Helene, to reexamine easy assumptions, to look again at safe generalizations. Includes valuable Introduction 2014 by the translator.
Download or read book Sweet Battlefields written by Mats Utas and published by Mats Utas. This book was released on 2003 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Identity in Crossroad Civilisations by : Erich Kolig
Download or read book Identity in Crossroad Civilisations written by Erich Kolig and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deze bundel gaat over de vorming van identiteit door het samenspel van etniciteit, nationalisme en de effecten van globalisering. De essays in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia maken de gelaagdheid en de complexiteit hiervan duidelijk.
Book Synopsis Tropical Medicine Notebook by : Philippa C. Matthews
Download or read book Tropical Medicine Notebook written by Philippa C. Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tropical Medicine Notebook is a new concept in providing a concise overview of the key topics in tropical medicine, using short notes, diagrams, maps, and tables to present the material in an accessible, engaging, memorable, and interesting way. The format is generally a page per topic, with division of each page into subsections by boxes to make it easy to find the relevant information. Cross-referencing is provided to allow quick linking between relevant sections of the book. Providing the key information in bite-size chunks, the Tropical Medicine Notebook is a useful companion to more comprehensive texts. Divided into eight sections; the first five cover infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and helminths, followed by a further three which present the topics of vector biology, disease syndromes and envenomation. Where relevant, the section is prefaced by a classification system to provide a logical overview, helping with assimilation of information and highlighting important relationships between organisms. It is an ideal learning and revision guide for students or trainees in infection, microbiology, and tropical medicine, as well as being a useful reference resource for healthcare and laboratory staff across the wide range of disciplines to which infection may present.
