12 One of the command’s most important annual engagements is the African Land Forces Summit, scheduled to be held virtually this week on May 19.
Despite preferring an in-person summit, the U.S. Army has organized a virtual ALFS for 2021 because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Taking into consideration travel limitations and the health and safety of country delegations, the U.S. Army is utilizing a widely accepted communication technology to host the ninth annual ALFS.
Gathered together into smaller, regionally focused groups, land force senior leaders – including land chiefs and senior enlisted leaders – from across the African continent will discuss challenges and opportunities focused on this year’s ALFS theme: “Maintaining Security in a Degraded Environment.”
Recently, I was in the Italian section of San Francisco, known as North Beach.
I ran into a friend who is pretty wise. We happened to be across the street from a hotel that the city was renting out, since the COVID-19 lockdowns, for those who needed a place to live.
My friend, who lives in the area, remarked, The place is mostly men. I see them come out of there. They are broken men. They have destroyed the spirit of the poor, now they are going to destroy the spirit of the middle class.
This isn t only going to happen in San Francisco or California. It is most certainly going to happen in every blue city and state. Do not move to any of these states unless you will be paid a lot of money and you have a strong constitution. And just hope it does not infect the red states.