• Map/Timeline: African Militant Islamic Groups (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, 2019)

AFRICOM Regional - Boko Haram

• Video: Boko Haram: Journey From Evil (2017)
• Video: Boko Haram Special Documentary (2017)

AFRICOM Regional - Working with African Militaries

East Africa Regional

• Video: Al Shabaab and the Rise of Jihad in Kenya (VICE, 2014)

Djibouti

• Video: 2019 Camp Lemonnier Djibouti Welcome Aboard

Eritrea

• Video: Behind the Crisis: Eritrea's Struggle to Survive (PBS, 2014)

Ethiopia

• Video: Ethiopia: Racing to Reform (BBC Our World, 2019)

Kenya

• Video: Kenya's Enemy Within (Al Jazeera, 2015)
• Video: Kenya! A beautiful place. The people, food, culture, music and more (2015)

Rwanda

• Video: Rwandan Genocide - The Slaughter of 800,000 People

Somalia

• Video: Captain Philips: Somali Pirates Inside Story
• Video: The True Story of Black Hawk Down

South Sudan

• Video: South Sudan: Friendship Over Fear
• Now We Are Zero: South Sudanese Chiefs and Elders Discuss Their Roles in Peace and Conflict (Rift Valley Institute, 2016)

Sudan

• Video: Sudan: Fight for the Soul of the North (Al Jazeera, 2011)
• Video: Sudan: History of a Broken Land (Al Jazeera, 2011)

Tanzania

• Video: Tanzania Documentary (Gemporia, 2017)
• Audio: History of Tanzania (FrogCast, 2017)

Uganda

• Video: 2 Lost Kingdoms of Africa Bunyoro and Buganda aka Uganda (BBC Series)
• Video: The Brutal Rise of Idi Amin

North Africa Regional Mediterranean Overview

• Video: Europe's Migration Tragedy: Life and Death in the Mediterranean (Sky News, 2016)
• Video: Pirates Of The Barbary Coast (History Channel Documentary, 2016) - Presley O'Bannon's time, the Shores of Tripoli
• Video: Battlefield: The Battle for the Mediterranean (2012)

North Africa Regional Meghreb

• Video: Who are the Amazigh of North Africa? (TRT World, 2018)
• Video: The Sahara (2016)

Algeria

• Video: Heartbreaking History of Algeria ¦ French Occupation - Extremism and State Terrorism
• Video: Algeria Test of Power - An Authoritarian Era (Al Jazeera) (1 of 2)
• Video: Algeria Test of Power - An Era of Tempests (Al Jazeera) (2 of 2)

Egypt

Libya

• Video: Along Gaddafi's Road - Real Stories Documentary (Real Stories, 2016)
• Video: The Lust for Libya: How a Nation was Torn Apart | The Big Picture (Al Jazeera, 2018)

Morocco

• Video: King Hassan II - Building Morocco (CGTN, 2015) 
• Video: The Kingdom of Morocco Documentary (BBC, 2013)

Tunisia

• Video: The Battle for Bizerte: Tunisia's War With Islamists (Full Documentary)
• Video: Ben Ali: The Black Books (Documentary)

Tunisia - Gafsa District

• Video: The Amazigh of Gafsa (2017)

Western Sahara

• Video: Understanding Western Sahara (2014)
• Video: 1982 Sahara War Documentary (2017)

North Africa Regional Sahel

Chad

• Video: Chad's Fight Against Boko Haram (2015)
• Video: Destination Chad - English Documentary (2016)

Mali

• Video: The Changing Face of Terror in Mali (2013)
• Video: French Military - Operation Serval (2013-2014)
• Video: Mali, in the Line of Fire (2013)

Niger

• Video: Niger: Europe Migration | People and Power (2019)
• Video: Niger: The Land of Fear (2019)

Nigeria

Central Africa Regional

Burundi

• Video: Is there a threat of genocide in Burundi? (Inside Story, 2016)
• Video: In the Wake of War (IFAD, 2014)

Cameroon

• Video: Cameroon: Anatomy of a Killing (BBC Africa Eye, 2018)
• Video: History of Cameroon (FrogCast, 2017)

Central African Republic (CAR)

• Video: Central African Republic: The way of the warlord (France24, 2018)
• Video: War in the Central African Republic (Vice News, 2014)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

• Video: Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo (Vice, 2012)
• Video: Kony, M23, and the Real Rebels of Congo (Vice, 2012)
• Video: Belgian Congo History - Documentary (BBC, 2016)

Equatorial Guinea

• Video: Equatorial Guinea: Triumph Over Adversity in Africa (Embassy, 2018)
• Video: on the Road in Equatorial Guinea - Chinese influence included (BBC, 2015)

Gabon

Southern Africa Regional

Angola

Botswana

Comoros

Lesotho

Madagascar

Malawi

Maritius

Mozambique

Namibia

Reunion

Seychelles

South Africa

Swaziland

Zambia

Zimbabwe

West Africa Regional

Benin

Burkino Faso

Cote d'Ivoire

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Mauritania

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

CENTCOM Regional - Al Qaeda

CENTCOM Regional - ISIS

CENTCOM Regional - Islam

CENTCOM Regional - Mesopotamia

CENTCOM Regional - Hezbollah

West South Asia Regional AFPAK​

Pakistan

• Video: Pakistan-India Wagah Gate ceremony

• Video: Pakistan (Pushtun) village life, in Frontier area

• Video: Pakistan (Punjabi) village life, in Punjab

• Video: Pakistan village wedding

• Video: Pakistan Intelligence is watching me!

• Book on Pakistan, recommended

Afghanistan

• Video: 2017 Helmand life under Taliban
   
• Video: Afghan village economic projects in Nangarhar area
   

• Video: Afghanistan street food.

• Afghanistan book, recommended.​

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf Regional

Bahrain

Egypt

Iraq

Iran

Iran Cognitive Dimension​

Kuwait

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Yemen

Central Asia Regional

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Levant Regional

Israel

Jordan

Lebanon

Syria

European Overview Regional

• Video: What is the Schengen Agreement?
• The Washington Treaty (1949)
• Article: How to Enlarge NATO: The debate inside the Clinton Administration, 1993-95 (M.E. Sarotte, 2019)
• Website: Mediterranean Refugee Situation Portal
• European Union Website
• Slide Presentation: The U.S., NATO, and the Defense of Europe (Anthony Cordesman, 2018)
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Tony Judt, 2006)

Mediterranean Basin Regional

• Video: Profiting From Misery - How Smugglers Bring People to Europe
• Website: Mediterranean Refugee Situation Portal

Black Sea Regional

• The Black Sea: A History (Charles King, 2005)
• Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Colin Wells, 2007)

Balkans Regional

• The Balkans: Nationalism, War & The Great Powers, 1804-1999 (Misha Glenny, 2001)
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Rebecca West, 2007)
• To End a War (Richard Holbrooke, 1999)
• Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (Laura Silber, 1997)
• The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans (Hupchick & Cox, 2001)
• Conversations with Stalin first edition (Milovan Djilas, 1963)

Albania

Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Movie (free online): "No Man's Land" (Danis Tanovic, 2001)
• The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric, 1977)

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Greece

• Video: Greece's Geographic Challenge
• Video: Is Greece’s economic nightmare over?
• Movie: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Greek Subs)
• Video: U.S. & Greek Military (2018) • Exercise Stolen Cerberus V
• Secretary General thanks Greece for its important contributions to NATO

Kosovo

• Kosovo: A Short History (Noel Malcolm, 1999)

Macedonia

Montenegro

Romania

• Video: BSRF-14 Marines, Sailors Build Long-lasting Relationship
• Movie: Philanthrophy (2002)
• "Comrade Detective" (TV Series)

Serbia

• Movie: Tito and Me (Goran Markovic, 2012)
• The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Tim Judah, 2000)

Slovenia

Turkey

• Blue Homeland the Heated Politics Behind Turkeys New Maritime Strategy (Ryan Gingeras, 2020)
• Montreux Convention of 1936 (pdf)
• Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (Charles King, 2015)

Baltics Regional

• Video: Defending the east of the Alliance - NATO's enhanced Forward Presence
• Article: The Baltic Region’s Security Gap: Understanding Why U.S.-Swedish Military Cooperation is Key
• News: The Baltic Times
• Assessing the Conventional Force Imbalance in Europe: Implications for Countering Russian Local Superiority
• Total Defense: How the Baltic States Are Integrating Citizenry Into Their National Security Strategies
• Securing the Nordic-Baltic Region

Estonia

• Video: Baltic Defence: Estonia's Volunteer Army
• Website: NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
• Estonian Intelligence Services 2019 Security Estimate (pdf)

Latvia

• Video: KGB, Torture and Soviet terror: why Latvia worries about today's Russia (NATO Review)
• Blood in the Forest (Vincent Hunt, 2017)

Lithuania

• Video: Lithuania issues manual on what to do if Russia invades (CNN)
• Video: Lithuania Takes Steps to Assure Sovereignty Through Energy Independence
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• Video: Lithuania's efforts to reduce its reliance on Russia for natural gas

Central Europe Regional

Austria

Czech Republic

Germany

• Film: “Good Bye Lenin!”

Hungary

Liechtenstein

Poland

• Video/Article: Why Poland’s conservative government is causing alarm at the EU (2019)
• Video: Poland: The Road of Revival (2016)
• Video: Officer Class: Poland's Military University (2018)
• Movie: Cold War (2018)

Slovakia

Slovenia

Eastern Europe Regional

• Film: "Leviathan"
• Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (Timothy Snyder, 2012)
• Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II, 4th edition (Rothschild & Wingfield, 2007)
• Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After (R.J. Crampton, 1997)
• The Russian Primary Chronicle

Belarus

• Belarus-Russia relations after the Ukraine conflict
• Belarusian Army: Capacity and its Role in the Region
• Belarusian Identity – The Impact of Lukashenka’s Rule

Moldova

• Video: The Struggle for National Identity in the Republic of Moldova (2013)
• Video: On the Road to Moldova (BBC Hard Talk, 2015)
• Article: Moldova-US Relation and the National Guard's State Partnership Programme (2019)
• Visiting Transnistria?
• Cultural of Moldova

Russia Cognitive Dimension

• Video: The Cognitive Dimension - Making Sense of Russia's Information Warfare
• Video: Russian Occupier
• Video: Russia's (dis)information warfare - BBC News
• Video: Info Warfare: Russians do not believe in objective truth
• Podcast: Russian Culture and the Cognitive Dimension
• Russia's Information Warfare: Exploring the Cognitive Dimension (MCU Journal, 2019)

Russia

• Video: What is Russia's Wagner Group?
• Video: Timothy Snyder: The Russian Military Tactic of 'Reverse Asymmetrical Warfare' in Ukraine

Ukraine

• Video: Language -- How different are Ukrainian and Russian?
• Miniseries: Chernobyl
• Artist: Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation - Ukraine's Got Talent 2009 Winner
• Article: Ukraine’s Toughest Fight: The Challenge of Military Reform
• Budapest Memorandum of 1994 (pdf)
• Ukraine & Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry (Anatol Lieven, 1999)
• Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (Charles King, 2012)

Iberian Peninsula

Andorra

Portugal

Spain

• Video: U.S. Marines Train with Spanish Marines

Northern Europe Regional

• The Perils of Playing Footsie in Military Boots: Trident Juncture and NATO's Nordic Front (Azita Raji, 2018)
• Caution in the High North: Geopolitical and Economic Challenges of the Arctic Maritime Environment (Rachael Gosnell, 2018)
• The Trump-Puting Relationship and the Implications for the Nordic-Baltic Region
• Russian Policies Toward the Nordic-Baltic Region (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Endowment)
• Security in Northern Europe and the Road to the 2018 NATO Summit (Jeffrey Rathke, CSIS, 2017)
• The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia (Michael Booth, 2016)

Denmark

• The Nordic Countries and U.S. Relations (pdf)

Finland

• Video: The Finnish Navy
• Article: USMC and Finland train in Sub-zero conditions

Iceland

Norway

• Video of Royal Marines & U.S. Marines Train in Norway: Fighting in the Freezer (BBC, 2016)
• Norwegian TV Series: Occupied (Netflix, 2017)
• Norwegian Key Phrases (Norwegian Armed Forces Website)
• Cold Weather Training Materials (Norwegian Armed Forces Website)
• The Social Guidebook to Norway: An Illustrated Introduction (Bourrelle & Lund, 2015)
• USMC Concepts and Programs: Marine Corps Prepositioning Program Norway (MCPP-N)

Sweden

• Video: Military Reinforcements on Gotland Island

Southern Europe

Italy

• Video: Italian Hand Gestures: a short history

Malta

San Marino

Transcaucasia

• The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Charles King, 2008)

Armenia

• Video: Armenia--Off the beaten path
• Britannica, Armenia Genocide
• Concept of the Armenian Armed Forces
• Article:  Renewed fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan: what makes it different this time? (Alexander Stronell 2020)

Azerbaijan

• Video: Economics and Corruption in Azerbaijan
• Article: Renewed fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan: what makes it different this time? (Alexander Stronell 2020)

Georgia

Western Europe

• Video: The Loss of Life in WWI Visualized
• Video: The Fallen of WWII

Belgium

France

Ireland

Luxembourg

Monaco

Netherlands

Switzerland

United Kingdom

• Website: Asia Society Organization
• Website: Asian Century Institute

Russia in Asia

Northeast Asia Regional

China

China Cognitive Dimension

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Cognitive Dimension

Japan

Mongolia

Republic of Korea

Taiwan

Oceania Regional

Australia

Melanesia Regional

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu

Micronesia Regional

Guam

Marshall Islands

Nauru

Palau

Polynesia Regional

Kiribati

New Zealand

Samoa

Tonga

Tuvalu

South Asia Regional

Bangladesh

India

Maldives

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Southeast Asia Regional

Brunei

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar (Burma)

Philippines

• Video: Philippine Overview
• Website: Philippine Star News
• Article: The Barangay System
• Religion in the Philippines Summarized
• Philippine Economy
• Philippine Culture
• Philippine History
• Official Website: Philippine Government
  • President
  • House of Representatives
  • Senate
  • Supreme Court

Singapore

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Vietnam

Working with Latin American Militaries Regional

Tri-Border Regional - Brazil, Paraguay, Uraguay

Latin America Overview Regional

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Mexico (NORTHCOM)

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

Dominican Republic

Guatemala

Haiti

Central America Regional

Belize

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

 

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