Role of military chaplains and security strategy in Africa

The event, held in Accra last week, was easy to overlook if one expected a conventional military conference. It was not about weapons systems, battlefield tactics, or counterterrorism operations in the narrow sense.

Yet the gathering mattered because it illuminated a quiet but consequential front in contemporary security cooperation: the role of military chaplains and religious affairs personnel in sustaining cohesion, resilience, and legitimacy inside armed forces facing intense pressure.