Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:18
Earlier this year, the U.S. Departments of Defense and State submitted the 2012-2013 Foreign Military Training Report to Congress. Mandated by law, this report details “all military training provided to foreign military personnel by the Department of Defense and the Department of State during the previous fiscal year and all such training proposed for the current fiscal year.“
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:56
The rub with this sort of training is that the GKNB, as the most capable units in post-Soviet security forces, tend to carry out both missions against serious external threats and also persecute legitimate domestic opposition.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:07
Some in Libya, along with a number of outside experts, worry that the new force — whose recruits will be selected by the Libyan defense minister and vetted by the country that trains them — could ultimately become a tool for competing groups to advance their own agendas, or simply one more armed faction in a dangerous sea of firepower.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 06:06
On Thursday November 21, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations convened a hearing titled, “Political, Economic, and Security Situation in Africa.” Despite its title, the hearing focused on the North African states of Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco, and U.S. policy towards these nations.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 13:46
The United States military has substantially stepped up its counternarcotics assistance training programs with a number of Central Asian states, according to recently released documents from the U.S. State and Defense Departments. According to the documents, in 2012 the U.S.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 12:10
Its main focus is to train soldiers in military educational institutions of Lithuania on course preparation system.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 09:51
This post extracts key trends and information from the Middle East and North Africa portion of the 2012 Foreign Military Training Report, which details United States military and police training activities around the world.
The top recipients of U.S. training in 2012 – Lebanon and the Gulf States:
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 09:04
At least 27 people have been killed and dozens injured in a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq, officials say.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 08:12
ACOTA is a program within the Office of Regional and Security Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs at the Department of State. It began as the Africa Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) in 1997 with the mission of enhancing the capacity of African partner nations to participate in worldwide multinational peace operations. ACRI was restructured as ACOTA in 2002 and incorporated into the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) when GPOI was initiated in 2004 (http://www.state.gov/t/pm/ppa/gpoi/)
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 08:03
Wehrey was critical of US efforts to train a small Libyan counter-terrorism unit earlier this year, observing that “recruitment appeared to be drawn overwhelmingly from westerners (Tripolitanians) to the exclusion of the long-neglected east (Cyrenaica)”.
