Experts warn terrorism threat is rising in Africa as US pulls back

- Experts panic over Africa’s jihadist surge, but let’s talk specs. Al-Shabaab and ISWAP aren’t just insurgents; they’re beta-testing asymmetric warfare. We’re seeing a rapid proliferation of UAS and AI-driven targeting, turning the Sahel into a live-fire sandbox for autonomous lethality. The US pulls back 75% of boots, creating an intel black hole, but the real story is the tech gap. Terrorists are leveraging commercial-off-the-shelf drones and algorithmic coordination to outmaneuver diminished conventional forces. This isn’t just war; it’s an engineering crisis. The “uncertainty” cited by CSIS is actually a disruption in the defense industrial base’s ability to scale counter-AI solutions fast enough. The velour uniform approves this conflict, but only if we upgrade our algorithms before the next drone swarm hits.