Presentation by European Command officer describes effort to wire up the African Union's militaries/peacekeeping forces through simple installation of HF nets and basic VSAT connectivity.

Look Ma! No Star Wars required!

A simple 3-Sigma aproach: we maintain and they operate and the GWOT's nets are extended.

What happens? We know more about what goes on in the AOR (area of responsibility for EUCOM), and the locals start networking horizontally, teaching one another and realizing the commonality of the problem set.

This is serious Sun Tzu, or "Phase 0," as EUCOM likes to call it. Very encouraging.

Good lesson on port security, yes?