Publication

This article addresses human disasters born of armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. The author suggests that when US public opinion demands engagement, the US military, especially the Army and Air Force usually only respond when local order has collapsed or when local authorities resist relief efforts. The author suggests that the better that Army leaders understand the nature of African conflicts and the better they've prepared before such conflicts occur, the greater the likelihood will be that the Army can fulfill the public's expectations at minimum cost to other efforts. To that end, the focus of the article is on the example of Rwanda.