Bryant Harris for Defense News writes an interesting article on the American military presence in Africa. The aim is to counter the threat coming from China and Russia.
In such an incandescent climate of competition at all levels and in all spheres, military choice – by all strategic players – makes working for the ‘political sustainability’ of the world very complicated.
While diplomacies continue to work for a solution to the war in Ukraine, the recomposition of the global power map continues to evolve.
Africa, like the Arctic, is a major strategic terrain. At stake are the national interests of large and medium-sized powers.
In a changing geostrategic environment of increasing complexity, the choice to militarise the world in order to provide one’s own security is straightforward and dangerous. We all need ‘complex security’ and we all, at the same time, have a responsibility to dialogue and negotiate in order to avoid handing over to our children a world that increasingly resembles a permanent (hybrid and limitless) battlefield.
