Updating Algeria's Military Doctrine

Updating Algeria's Military Doctrine by Francis Ghilès and Akram Kharief

Algeria today possesses a number of assets that endow it with the potential to be a regional power and to serve as an anchor of stability. After Algerian security forces succeeded in crushing the decade-long Islamist insurgency and in the context of rising regional instability, American and European officials came to regard Algeria as being a potentially valuable security partner in the Maghreb and the Sahel. However, as this essay shows, Algeria’s military doctrine must be updated for this partnership to truly flourish — and for Algeria itself to thrive.

- From the Middle East-Asia Project (MAP) series on Civilianizing the State in the MENA and Asia Pacific Regions -