The future of conflict in Africa is being built on three pillars: mercenaries, drones and false information, according to analyst Alessandro Arduino.

In his new book, “Money for Mayhem,” Arduino, an affiliate lecturer at King’s College London, sees future conflicts in Africa being built around private military contractors capable of simultaneously deploying experienced fighters, operating combat drones and running deceptive social media campaigns that largely target young people.

“Africa is a perfect storm for this sort of thing happening,” Arduino told ADF in an interview.

More than any other groups, Russia’s Africa Corps — and the Wagner Group before it — provides the model for this vision of future warfare on the continent. This model is not so different from the past, when mercenar

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