key security challenges in africa - african land forces summit 2010
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KEY SECURITY CHALLENGES IN AFRICAPresented at the 2010 African Land Forces SummitBy General ML Agwai, Former Force Commander, African Union/ United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, (UNAMID)11 May 2010TRANSCRIPT
KEY SECURITY CHALLENGES IN AFRICA
ByGeneral ML AgwaiFormer Force CommanderAfrican Union/ United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur(UNAMID)11 May 2010
CAUSES OF INSECURITY
Several
Political Factors
Economic Factors
Population (Rural/Urban)
Transnational/Organized Crimes
Ethno-Religious Extremism
Proliferation of Small Arms
Porous Borders
REDUCING INSECURITY
Continental Organizational Efforts.
Regional Bodies and their Efforts.
National Efforts.
REDUCING INSECURITY (Provision of Education and Equipment)
Untutored courage is useless
in the face of educated bullets.
Gen George S. Patton, Jr, in the Cavalry Journal, April, 1922.
REDUCING INSECURITY (Need for Education and Training)
The government is a murderer of its
citizens which sends them to the
field uninformed and untaught, where
they are to meet men of the same and
strength mechanized by education
and discipline for battle.
Major General Henry ‘Light horse Harry’ Lee (1756-1888)