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From 2012. In Africa, the Pentagon has quietly created about a dozen air bases for drones and surveillance since 2007. In addition to Camp Lemonnier, we know that the military has created or will soon create installations in Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, South Sudan, and Uganda. The Pentagon has also investigated building bases in Algeria, Gabon, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria, among other places. Next year, a brigade-sized force of 3,000 troops, and likely more, will arrive for exercises and training missions across the continent. In the nearby Persian Gulf, the Navy is developing an afloat forward-staging base, or mothership, to serve as a sea-borne lily pad for helicopters and patrol craft, and has been involved in a massive build-up of forces in the region.
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 03:06:51 +0000

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