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The Hunt: Coastal terrorism expansion spreading across Africa’s interior

Security officials from around the world are meeting in Luanda, Angola, to address deep concerns about growing terrorism in Africa.

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, is warning that what’s brewing inside Africa is trouble for the U.S.


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America 250: The rifled musket and the redefinition of infantry warfare

When the rifled musket entered widespread military service in the mid-19th century, it quietly detonated a revolution in warfare. Its impact was not immediate tactical brilliance, but something far more consequential: a widening gap between what weapons could do and how armies still chose to fight. That mismatch, as former U.S. Army Europe Cmdr. Ben Hodges told WTOP, reshaped American military history at extraordinary human cost.
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