This week on Bombshell, Alice Hunt Friend joins us to talk all things Africa and civ-mil. We dive into U.S. operations in Niger and the Kenyan elections reboot. Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping get new mandates while preparing for the president's big trip to Asia, along with the rest of us. And we all wait for the fallout from the Mueller indictments.

Episode Reading:

• Alice Hunt Friend, "What Does Niger Have to Do with the AUMF?" Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Alice Hunt Friend, "Trump wrongly ignores Africa," The Hill
• Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung, "Amid Niger ambush chaos, the White House first thought several Americans were missing," Washington Post
• Thomas E. Ricks, "An Old Colonel Looks at General Kelly," Foreign Policy
• Loren DeJonge Schulman, "The Necessity of Questioning the Military," The Atlantic
• David Dollar, "Reading the tea leaves of China's 19th Party Congress," Brookings Institution
• Simon Denyer, "China's leader elevated to the level of Mao in Communist pantheon," Washington Post
• Robert Burns, "Pentagon Chief Says North Korea Engages in 'Outlaw' Behavior," NBC News
• Vikram Singh and Lindsey Ford, "China Is Looking Forward to Trump's Truancy at the East Asia Summit," Foreign Policy
• Daniel Kliman and Zack Cooper, "Washington Has a Bad Case of China ADHD," Foreign Policy
• Mike Duncan, The Storm Before the Storm Tour Dates
• Erik Pedersen, "'The Alienist' Premiere Date & Trailer: Bruhl, Evans, Fanning & TNT Trek Back to 1890s New York," Deadline