The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African Environment

Dan Henk serves as a social anthropologist on the faculty of the US Air War College.  He is a former career US Army officer whose assignments included combat in Viet Nam and Grenada and overseas service in Europe and Africa. His years in Africa included accreditation as military attaché to four African countries.  He has served as Director of African Studies at the US Army War College and as Chair, Department of Security Strategy, Africa Center for Strategic Studies. He holds a B.A. in History from The Citadel, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida. He is a graduate of the US Army Command & General Staff College and US Army War College. His recent publications explored defense budgeting in African countries, new military roles and missions and emerging new definitions of “security.”  His most recent book analyzed the evolution of South Africa’s armaments industry in the wake of majority rule.