Three weeks have elapsed since a military junta ejected the democratically elected president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, from power. Much has been said in many capitals; little has been done. This, frankly, is unsurprising since the U.S. and France, the…
Does it matter whether Niger is run by a committee of high-ranking military men or an elected president who took office without incurring the wrath of his predecessor or the fury of the media elites in Niamey? Niamey is the…
Amidst the silly cat videos and the tedious political cartoons, one occasionally stumbles across an internet image of stunning insight. Such is the case with an image of Greta Thunberg and an African child, which has been making the rounds…
Christian farmers in Nigeria have a right to protect themselves, despite the Biden administration’s indifference. Years ago, as I was finding my feet as a national security professional, I became friends with a wise and wonderful man, a retired Special…
Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, wants to give away all your money. Well, most of it, anyway. She has proposed paying out $14 trillion in reparations. That’s more than half of America’s annual GDP. Alas, giving her half…
Khartoum is wracked by violence, and my mind goes back over two decades to a couple of trips I took to that city, which is positioned dramatically at the confluence of the muddy White Nile and the dark Blue Nile….
North Korea’s suicidal antics have largely dropped from the headlines, and Ukraine’s valiant struggle against Russian aggression barely achieves above-the-fold coverage. The threat of the month appears to be Red China and its almost inevitable invasion of Taiwan. But there…
I spoke with George Neumayr on the last day of last year. The call was cut short by an operator speaking French. I believe she was asking one of us to deposit more funds. Before that disruption, we did some…
Late this morning, we received this dreadful news: “It is with great sadness that the family of George Neumayr announces his untimely passing on January 19, 2023. He was abroad in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa, living out his passion for defending…
One of the big lies in the West is that a high quality of living requires a high cost of living. Travel to different non-Western parts of the world and you will quickly see that that is not true. Take…