Liberia, April 27 -- Liberia has long maintained close historical and doctrinal ties with the United States military, and a coherent reform of its national defense architecture would benefit from revisiting the framework established under the 1986 National Defense Law.

By Ekena Wesley Darby, contributing writer

That law clearly organized the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) into an Army, Air Force, and Navy under the authority of the Ministry of National Defense (Liberia), a structure that would provide the House of Representatives of Liberia and the Liberian Senate with clearer institutional visibility into defense headquarters operations, thereby strengthening transparency in budgeting, funding allocation, and expenditure oversight. At t...