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The Startling Size of US Military Operations in Africa
Mother Jones ^
| | Fri Sep. 6, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
| By Nick Turse |
Posted on 09/09/2013 3:59:57 PM PDT by sopwith
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
They're involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that's just the ABCs of the situation. Skip to the end of the alphabet and the story remains the same: Senegal and the Seychelles, Togo and Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia. From north to south, east to west, the Horn of Africa to the Sahel, the heart of the continent to the islands off its coasts, the US military is at work. Base construction, security cooperation engagements, training exercises, advisory deployments, special operations missions, and a growing logistics network, all undeniable evidence of expansion—except at US Africa Command.
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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: africa; benghazi
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posted on
09/09/2013 3:59:57 PM PDT
by
sopwith
To: sopwith
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:06:37 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
To: sopwith
To offset the increasing influence in ‘Frica by the CommieChinks?
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:07:47 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: sopwith
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:11:23 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I got sick of seeing Syria in every other post so I tossed in a couple.
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:12:51 PM PDT
by
sopwith
(LIVE FREE OR DIE)
To: sopwith
"The command is adamant that it has only a single "military base" in all of Africa: Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. "
If memory serves, wasn't that a French Foreign Legion outpost? "Legio Patria Nostra!"
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:14:27 PM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: PowderMonkey; sopwith; zot
Obviously our troops are deployed there to learn how to “shake their jabooty.”
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:29:28 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Paladin2
that is what i’m guessing.
remember in1984 africa was always where multiple, changing front lines were. will be so in reality too.
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:29:48 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: sopwith
Anything in Hussein’s country of birth?
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:36:08 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: GreyFriar
Brother, I'm 46-years old and it still makes me smile every time I here “Djibouti”.
To: sopwith
The article brings back memories as once upon a time I was stationed in Asmara, Eritrea (then Ethiopia)at a former British outpost called Kagnew Station.
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:37:04 PM PDT
by
redfreedom
(Republicans = The faux conservative wing of the democrat party.)
To: PowderMonkey
It was when I was there 30 years ago. Now, I’m told, it’s the US HQS for the War on Terror in the Horn of Africa.
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:38:37 PM PDT
by
Ax
To: sopwith
Amazing. No wonder Reid won’t pass a budget.
To: GreyFriar
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posted on
09/09/2013 4:50:04 PM PDT
by
zot
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I read the name as saw “Tick Nurse”, LOL!
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posted on
09/09/2013 5:31:49 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the people. T Jefferson)
To: sopwith
Time to bring all our soldiers back from Africa and let the voodoo gods sort it out.
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posted on
09/09/2013 5:53:07 PM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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