The African Crisis Response Force

Authors

Derek J. Christian

Abstract

President Clinton has approved an ambitious plan to organize, train, equip and help deploy an all-African military force of 10,000 troops to intervene in the continent's recurrent crises , senior administation officials said." This was how one newspaper described in September 1996 the U.S-initated concept of the African Crisis Response Force (ACRF). The idea has arisen from the United Nations "standby force" proposed by the then Secretary-General, Boutros-Ghali. The initial idea was to deploy such a force in Burundi under UN auspices to avoid a repetition of the violence that had erupted in neighboring Rwanda two year previously.

Recommended Citation

Christian, Derek J. (1998) "The African Crisis Response Force," Naval War College Review: Vol. 51: No. 3, Article 6.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol51/iss3/6