--- description: Military aircraft are to join an enlarged U.S. special-operations force in Uganda to hunt down notorious warlord Joseph Kony title: Joseph Kony: U.S. Special Operations Steps Up Hunt for Ugandan Warlord image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82dd8b5d2df2d944/698686e513c79ff13319131b/142198200.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Hunt for Ugandan Warlord Joseph Kony Just Got a Lot More Intense  by [Charlie Campbell](/author/charlie-campbell/)  ## Charlie Campbell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large Mar 24, 2014 4:41 AM CUT  Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army answers journalists' questions in Ri-Kwamba, Sudan, on Nov. 12, 2006 Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army answers journalists' questions in Ri-Kwamba, Sudan, on Nov. 12, 2006Stuart Price—AFP/Getty Images  by [Charlie Campbell](/author/charlie-campbell/)  ## Charlie Campbell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large Mar 24, 2014 4:41 AM CUT Military aircraft are for the first time to join an [enlarged](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/2014/03/23/aa468ca6-b2d0-11e3-8020-b2d790b3c9e1%5Fstory.html "undefined") U.S. special-operations force in Uganda as President Barack Obama ramps up efforts to hunt down notorious warlord Joseph Kony. CV-22 Osprey aircraft will arrive by midweek, along with refueling aircraft and some 150 Air Force special-operations personnel, according to the Washington _Post._ A total of 300 U.S. troops will now be stationed in the restive Central African state. Kony, whose brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has spent years plundering villages, mutilating civilians and kidnapping children across large swaths of Uganda, the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Congo, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court. LRA atrocities publicized on the Internet have sparked waves of revulsion around the world. \[[Washington _Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/2014/03/23/aa468ca6-b2d0-11e3-8020-b2d790b3c9e1%5Fstory.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/35078/us-intensifies-hunt-for-ugandan-warlord-joseph-kony/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/35078/us-intensifies-hunt-for-ugandan-warlord-joseph-kony/"},"headline":"The Hunt for Ugandan Warlord Joseph Kony Just Got a Lot More Intense","datePublished":"2014-03-24T04:41:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:55:09.858Z","description":"President Obama is adding about 150 special-operations personnel and four aircraft to the years-long pursuit of the Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, who has avoided detection as his ranks have ravaged large swaths of Central Africa","url":"https://time.com/35078/us-intensifies-hunt-for-ugandan-warlord-joseph-kony/","keywords":["Uganda"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82dd8b5d2df2d944/698686e513c79ff13319131b/142198200.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlie Campbell","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/charlie-campbell/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82dd8b5d2df2d944/698686e513c79ff13319131b/142198200.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joseph Kony","caption":"Joseph Kony","creditText":"Stuart Price—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/35078/us-intensifies-hunt-for-ugandan-warlord-joseph-kony/","name":"The Hunt for Ugandan Warlord Joseph Kony Just Got a Lot More Intense"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Lord's Resistance Army Hunts Children in Sudan","description":"One of the world's most brutal rebel groups, Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), is on the move from the Congo, terrorizing civilians","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/aq7GhGsP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-10-19T21:35:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/aq7GhGsP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/35078/us-intensifies-hunt-for-ugandan-warlord-joseph-kony/","duration":"PT6M10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/35078/us-intensifies-hunt-for-ugandan-warlord-joseph-kony/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```