America’s New Model for Expeditionary Warfare by Nick Turse Lion Forward Teams? Echo Casemate? Juniper Micron? You could be forgiven if this jumble of words looks like nonsense to you. It isn’t. It’s the language of the U.S. military’s simmering African… Continue Reading
The Startling Size, Scope, and Growth of U.S. Military Operations on the African Continent by Nick Turse via Tom Dispatch 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… Continue Reading
The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa by Nick Turse via Tom Dispatch The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of U.S. Africa Command’s big success stories. The Gulf… of… Continue Reading
By Paul Mutter The Washington Post reports that the CIA is seeking greater control over drone assets around the world, especially those equipped to carry out targeted killings in the Horn of Africa, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan: The proposal by… Continue Reading