Optimizing Africa’s Security Force Structures

By Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Updated: 05/10/2011

asb 13By Helmoed Heitman. Africa Center for Strategic Studies, May 2011.

Combating irregular forces has become a common feature of the contemporary African security landscape. However, the security sector in most African countries is ill-prepared to conduct effective counter-insurgency operations. Realigning force structures to address these threats while building security sector professionalism to gain the trust of local populations is needed to do so.

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