For example, in chapter 9, Williams writes that 'AMISOM's most fundamental problem was that the politics of Somali security sector reform (SSR) were not conducive to building a national army' (p. 239). A history and analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017: by Paul D. Williams, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, 366 pp., ISBN: 978 0 19872 454 4 Someone could write a list of recommendations for AMISOM or other peace operations from the chapters of Part II, even though Williams concludes that the 'AMISOM model that developed from late 2009 could not and should not be reassembled as the basis for conducting sustained peace enforcement tasks' (p. 349). [Extracted from the article]