To hear AFRICOM tell it, US military involvement on the continent ranges from the miniscule to the microscopic. The command is adamant that it has only a single military base in all of Africa: Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. The head of the command insists that the US military maintains a small footprint on the continent. AFRICOMs chief spokesman has consistently minimized the scope of its operations and the number of facilities it maintains or shares with host nations, asserting that only a small presence of personnel who conduct short-duration engagements are operating from several locations on the continent at any given time. ...Theyre involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And thats 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. motherjones/politics/2013/09/us-military-bases-africa
Posted on: Sat, 03 May 2014 06:29:21 +0000
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