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John Clune's masterful <i>The Abongo Abroad</i> productively and provocatively pushes the growing literature on African military institutions into the post-colonial era. Focusing on Ghanian soldiers and their families, Clune convincingly argues that peace-keeping operations, international military educational exchange programs, and other 'modernizing' nation-building initiatives fostered a new military internationalism that transcended the limits of the African nation state. This fresh and innovative social history will interest Africanists of all disciplines and scholars of American foreign relations and international peace and security. <b>Timothy H. Parsons</b>, author of <i>The African Rank-and-File</i> and <i>The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa</i>

John Clune's masterful The Abongo Abroad productively and provocatively pushes the growing literature on African military institutions into the post-colonial era. Focusing on Ghanian soldiers and their families, Clune convincingly argues that peace-keeping operations, international military educational exchange programs, and other 'modernizing' nation-building initiatives fostered a new military internationalism that transcended the limits of the African nation state. This fresh and innovative social history will interest Africanists of all disciplines and scholars of American foreign relations and international peace and security . - Timothy H. Parsons, author of The African Rank-and-File and The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa

John Clune's masterful The Abongo Abroad productively and provocatively pushes the growing literature on African military institutions into the post-colonial era. Focusing on Ghanian soldiers and their families, Clune convincingly argues that peace-keeping operations, international military educational exchange programs, and other 'modernizing' nation-building initiatives fostered a new military internationalism that transcended the limits of the African nation state. This fresh and innovative social history will interest Africanists of all disciplines and scholars of American foreign relations and international peace and security . - Timothy H. Parsons, author of The African Rank-and-File and The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa

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John V. Clune is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy.

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