Egypt ramps up pressure on Ethiopia over Nile dam US officials are skeptical of Cairo warnings to Ethiopia, even as Abdel Fattah al-Sisi s government expands defense ties in East Africa.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly (L) welcomes his Sudanese counterpart Abdalla Hamdok upon his arrival in Cairo, Egypt, March 11, 2021.
April 13, 2021
Egypt is hinting once again at the possibility of conflict with Ethiopia amid the failure of the latest round of talks over the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) last week.
The fruitless negotiations came as Cairo sent air forces to North Sudan for joint combat exercises with Khartoum’s military. Although the chief of staff of Sudan’s armed forces, Gen. Mohamed Osman al-Hussein, said the exercise was “not targeting a certain country,” Egyptian officials’ statements have been more ominous.
A Plan To Reform U.S. Security Assistance Getty/Pete Kiehart
A Ukrainian soldier shakes hands with one of his instructors after taking part in a Combat Lifesaver Course at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on April 22, 2015.
Sam Hananel
Introduction and summary
U.S. security assistance is broken and in need of an overhaul. Over the past two decades, the bureaucratic system developed to deliver billions of dollars of military aid to partner nations has evolved and expanded not by design but as the result of a series of ad hoc legislative and policy changes. Though the U.S. Department of State was initially in charge of security assistance policy and accounts, since 9/11, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has established a separate, well-funded security assistance bureaucracy at the Pentagon. This has inhibited effective congressional oversight, harmed coordination between diplomacy and defense, and contributed to the growing militar