Low-Intensity Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa: Termination or Control

Abstract

Since Independence, African countries have been waging intra--or interstate war, to build the nation or to keep it one. These wars had been fueled by factors pertaining to colonialism, ethnicism, and economy, and they found a fertile ground in the West-East confrontation of the Cold War era. African civil wars are an impediment to the development of the continent and they threaten the world's peace with their consequent instabilities. Their recurrence and social consequences are so strong that one can ask himself whether African states are not doomed to failure. This study is an analysis of the Low-Intensity Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, from a historic and social stand point, and it attempts to sort out the ways and means through which policymakers, both civilian and military, can deal with these conflicts which, far from being 'low' in this part of the world, constitute a survival dilemma to most African nations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 02, 1993
Accession Number
ADA264068

Entities

People

  • I. G. Diop

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Africa
  • Agreements
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Classification
  • Continents
  • Counterinsurgency
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Governments
  • Insurgency
  • International Organizations
  • Low Intensity Conflict
  • National Governments
  • Negotiations
  • Political Systems
  • Saharan Africa
  • Violence
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • History
  • Sociology

Readers

  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Strategic Security Studies