U.S. Military Averaging More Than A Mission A Day In Africa
By Nick Turse
Read full article at TomDispatch.com
The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities.
Since its inception, U.S. Africa Command
has consistently downplayed its role on the continent. Meanwhile, far
from the press or the public, the officers running its secret operations
have privately been calling Africa “the battlefield of tomorrow,
today.”
After years in the dark, we now know just
how “extremely active” -- to use General David Rodriguez’s phrase --
AFRICOM has been and how rapidly the tempo of its missions has
increased. It remains to be seen just what else we don't know about U.S.
Africa Command’s exponentially expanding operations.
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