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By Andrew Bacevich Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflow...

http://lobelog.com/false-security-donald-trump-and-the-ten-commandments-plus-one-of-the-national-security-state/

By Allegra Harpootlian Think back to the last time you cried at work. Did the tears come after your boss sent you a curt email? Or when you accidentally cc’d (instead of bcc’d) everyone? Mayb...

http://lobelog.com/why-i-weep-while-i-work/

by Nick Turse GOMA, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo — The boy was sitting next to his father, as he so often did. He mimicked his dad in every way. He wanted to be just like h...

http://lobelog.com/the-forgotten-trauma-of-a-forgotten-war/

by International Crisis Group What’s new? Middle Eastern states are accelerating their competition for allies, influence and physical presence in the Red Sea corridor, including in the Horn of...

http://lobelog.com/intra-gulf-competition-in-africas-horn-lessening-the-impact/

by Rémi Carayol The French army takes pride in regularly announcing “victories” in the Sahel, where it has been operating for five years under the name “Operation Barkhane.” These may be...

http://lobelog.com/who-are-these-jihadists-who-are-defeating-the-french-army-in-the-sahel/

by Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagner For many years, violent extremists have exploited the impoverished and lawless Sahel region of Africa. Salafist-jihadist militias have frequently transited th...

http://lobelog.com/burkina-faso-islamic-state-and-al-qaedas-new-sanctuary/

by Daniel Van Lehman and Lindsay J. Benstead President Trump—citing national security concerns—signed an executive order in April granting a one-year extension to the mandate of U.S. Special ...

http://lobelog.com/protecting-somali-minorities-is-good-military-strategy/

by Giorgio Cafiero Gabon, an oil-rich Central African state located along the equator, is not typically on the international media’s radar. The relative stability that has generally shaped Gabo...

http://lobelog.com/what-next-for-gabon/

by David Isenberg Some things don’t go together: water and electricity, science and religion, Donald Trump and basic human decency. The latest entry is journalists and Wagner, the Russian priva...

http://lobelog.com/wagner-vs-the-russian-media/

by Kenneth Roth and Salil Shetty Four years ago, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International—joining hundreds of others—urged the United Nations Security Council to send atrocity crimes comm...

http://lobelog.com/ensuring-that-the-icc-rises-to-the-challenge/