Ernest Lefever has given us, as we have learned to expect, a knowledgeable and perceptive study into the interrelation between political leaders and those who control the use of force in three states in tropical Africa-Ghana, the Congo, and Ethiopia. Despite many unique aspects of their condition and experience, his book should stimulate some thinking about the relationship as it exists in Asia and our own hemisphere. Indeed, reading his book, as I have just done, in conjunction with Khrushchev Remembers, Newhouse's De Gaulle and the Anglo Saxons, and Hill's God's Englishman (Oliver Cromwell) carries parallels even further.