Military Review English Edition November-December 2014 | Page 79

OPERATION SERVAL

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Figure 1. Map of Mali Showing Phases 0 Through 2 of Operation Serval
strength, in the following months but we will
remain in Mali, and around Mali, because we
are not done with terrorism yet.2

Mali: Tipping Toward Chaos
(1963 to 2013)
Mali is a landlocked country with a butterfly-shaped border in Afr