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French warriors and Norwegian soldiers in the Sahel

Ketil Fred Hansen
Review written by Ketil Fred Hansen
France's Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
Forfatter: Nathaniel K. Powell
Forlag: Cambridge University Press, (Storbritannia)
SMALL / No one in the Norwegian government can have read Nathaniel Powell's new book France's War in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. Had they done so, they would never have sent Norwegian soldiers to the French military force Takuba in Mali.




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Ketil Fred Hansen
Ketil Fred Hansen
Hansen is a professor of social sciences at UiS and a regular reviewer at Ny Tid.

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