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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: ON BEING A 'DIFFERENT' KIND OF COMMAND -- AFRICOM AT 10 YEARS (PART 2)
Description: In this War Room podcast, Ambassador Alexander M. Laskaris, current civilian deputy to the commander, reflects on the uniqueness of the command and growing importance of interagency cooperation, a hallmark of AFRICOM’s first decade. Along with reflections on strategic leadership, Ambassador Laskaris discusses the challenges of AFRICOM’s identity between being a 'hard power' warfighting command and a 'soft power' organization focused on preventing war and building security capacity. War Room associate editor Ryan McCannell hosts.