What is Exercise Flintlock?

What is Exercise Flintlock?

Since 2005 -- officially -- the United States has conducted a training program known as Exercise Flintlock. This program, which has multiple partners in various roles, aims to educate and prepare forces in Africa's Sahel region against the growing threat of non-state actors and terrorists. Proponents argue it saves lives. Critics allege it's another School of the Americas... and that the US may well be creating the same villains it claims to fight.

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CLASSIC: The Mystery of the Kensington Runestone

CLASSIC: The Mystery of the Kensington Runestone

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