by Dave Patterson | Sep 18, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Coups seem to be breaking out across Africa, but the coup in Niger could be particularly troublesome for the US. Few Americans could find the Republic of Niger on a globe and could not tell you why the African nation is important to the US. Nonetheless, Niger has been...
by Dave Patterson | Sep 4, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
The African nation of Gabon is the latest to experience a military coup. It’s not that Saharan and Sub-Saharan African countries are strangers to sudden, often violent, takeovers by their own armed forces. Still, it does seem there is a more frequent spate of such...
by Dave Patterson | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, International, Opinion
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed attempt to move on Moscow to address his Wagner Group’s grievances leaves a stability vacuum and many questions. On June 24, the Wagner Group, a private military company, occupied the Russian army headquarters of Rostov-on-Don and...
by Tim Donner | Nov 21, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The defining bookends of the Donald Trump era were seemingly unprecedented levels of both love and hate emanating from the balkanized sides in a titanic twilight struggle for what Joe Biden came to term “the soul of America.” At the same time, there was always some...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 3, 2021 | Articles, International
After Myanmar’s November 2020 elections, when the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a decisive victory over the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), tensions began to boil. Within weeks, they bubbled over in the early-morning...