Interview: Brig. Gen. Aida Borras, Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa. African Lion is U.S. Africa Command’s largest, premier, Joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal, 7-18 June. More than 7,000 participants from nine nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner nation forces. AL21 is a multi-domain, multi-component, and multi-national exercise, which employs a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Christopher Brecht)
Despite preferring an in-person summit, the U.S. Army has organized a virtual ALFS for 2021 because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Taking into consideration travel limitations and the health and safety of country delegations, the U.S. Army is utilizing a widely accepted communication technology to host the ninth annual ALFS virtually on May 19-20.
