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Showing posts with label AFRICOM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AFRICOM. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2011

U.S. troops and the LRA: What exactly IS "your typical advise and assist mission"?

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As you've no doubt already heard, the president is sending approximately 100 U.S. military personnel to central Africa to aid partner s...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

AFRICOM exercise begins

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Jeune Afrique reports that " Flintlock 10 ," a three-week annual AFRICOM exercise designed to help 16 countries fight terrorism h...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Mark Bowden needs a geography lesson

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The author of Blackhawn Down and Guests of the Ayatollah , among other books, has a much-ballyhooed and pretty mediocre profile of GEN Petra...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

AFRICOM's Sensitive Ego

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Foreign Policy has an article out titled "Think Again: Africom" by Elizabeth Dickinson. It's a little light, but that'...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009

AFRICOM: Combatant Command. Period.

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While Lil has spent some time on the continent recently ( here and here ), this excellent report from Lauren Ploch at CRS has my mind on U...
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