African Lion Exercise Halted as Search Begins for Two Missing US Soldiers

What Is African Lion?

It is the biggest annual joint military exercise that AFRICOM runs, and AFRICOM is one of eleven unified combatant commands under the US Department of Defense. This year brought together more than 7,000 personnel from over 30 countries, training across land, sea, air, cyber and space domains. Drones, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence have become an increasingly prominent part of what the exercise covers, according to the Associated Press.